Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20000921190841.610.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:08:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: RE: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin To: Josh Schulte Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Josh Schulte wrote: > > Do I or do I not want \r\n? I wrote the scripts in windows so the shell > script will have them. What is a good way to double check. I am not sure > what perl does when it sends the commands to the shell (\r\n or just \n) it > starts with system(). > Well since cvs is trying to open a file name foo\r and since foo\r is an illegal filename for Win32; then, you don't want \r\n line endings. Have you updated you Cygwin recently? IIRC, both ash and bash were modified to read script files in text mode so that these problems don't occur. To modify your file you can: cp foo.sh foo.tmp tr -d '\r' < foo.tmp > foo.sh rm foo.tmp This will delete all \r's in the file. Cheers, ===== --- --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com