Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Fri Sep 29 18:15:00 GMT 2006


Wilks, Dan wrote:
> So we just got the short-end?  A long(?) standing behavior of cygwin
> and DOS paths and a recent change to bash that eliminates support for
> \r's.  I guess we were living on the edge of something that wasn't 
> supposed to work at all and didn't even know it.  :/
> 
> We'll try to figure out some workaround for our environment.  I just
> wish going "pure cygwin" was an option.

Well, as we like to say here, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC. Since 
Eric is currently amenable to adding a shopt to bash, you have the 
option of implementing it yourself and submitting the patch for upstream 
consideration.

-- 
Matthew
My preferred shell is Christian. It's Bourne Again.


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