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RE: An AWK-ward problem...
>On November 24, 2011 10:17 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>On Nov 23 15:21, Flint, Paul wrote:
>> Greetings List lurkers,
>>
>> I have been troubleshooting some new bash script that I wrote and wanted (for some reason :^) to run on an NT box.
>>
>> So the struggle began...
>>
>> Anyway I get the oddest error:
>>
>> <snip>
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
>> warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in sendjcl.log.
>> <snap>
>>
>> So... I check my code and check my code... soon the problem begins to drive me mad...
>>
>> Then!
>>
>> I do this from a cygwin ver 2.761 terminal...
>>
>> $cd /c/cygwin/bin
>> $dos2unix awk
>>
>> Now awk works!
>
>I don't believe in this solution:
>
>- /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is apparently the name of a
> shell script. /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is certainly
> not /bin/awk.
Actually, this looks like you arenât running cygwin at all. Did you
install msys git? That would install a rudimentary set of unix tools
compiled with mingw, the default path is exactly as in your error
message. Check your path settings.
Michael