On 9/7/2016 2:12 PM, wilson wrote: > >> On 2016-09-06 18:36, Kipton Moravec wrote: I am relatively new to shell scripts, but this works on >> linux and I do not know why it does not work for me in cygwin. ... What am I doing wrong or is >> this an error? Where do the carriage returns (^M) come from, and how do I get rid of them? > > The (^M -Control M) characters are displayed because Windows is stupid and didn't do the sensible > thing for End Of Line for plain text files. Linux/Unix uses a Carriage Return (CR) followed by a > Line Feed (LF) to do an EOL. A Google search for "Control M Character" will bring up a lot of web > sites dealing with explaining this. > > You need to run "dos2unix" or "unix2dos" on your script to convert the EOL to the proper OS > formatting when transferring between real Linux/Unix machines and Windows machines. These utilities > are available in the Cygwin utilities download (look for it), but I'm not sure they are included in > the basic default packages.
Umm, Linux/Posix does NOT include ^M (CR) in line endings, only ^J (NL). Older Apple systems used ^M only, but newer ones have a Unix-like OS under the hood and are thus more Posix-like. Regards -- Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
