X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4525721E.6070007@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:59:10 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: spaces in .bash_profile lead to "command not found" References: <20061005201903 DOT GA13484 AT dirac DOT org> <45256D64 DOT 8060504 AT buddydog DOT org> In-Reply-To: <45256D64.8060504@buddydog.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> There are 4 blank lines in my .bash_profile: >> >> ====== start file >> echo 'BEGIN ~/.bash_profile' >> >> export ANT_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Java/apache-ant-1.6.5' >> export JAVA_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Java/jdk1.5.0_08' >> export CLASSPATH='' >> export EDITOR='vim' >> export PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${ANT_HOME}/bin:${PATH}" >> # export PS1='$ ' >> >> >> # echo 'setting up aliases...' >> # alias ls='ls -F --color' >> # alias ll='ls -Fl --color' >> # alias la='ls -Fla --color' >> # alias lr='ls -Flr --color' >> # alias lar='ls -Flar --color' >> # alias desktop='cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ >> Settings/psalzman/Desktop' >> >> echo 'END ~/.bash_profile' >> ====== end file >> >> Each blank line generates an error: >> >> $ source .bash_profile >> BEGIN ~/.bash_profile >> : command not found >> : command not found >> : command not found >> : command not found >> END ~/.bash_profile >> >> However, if I comment all the blank lines out, I get no errors. Each >> blank >> line in this file seems to be causing a "command not found" error. What >> could be causing this? > > CR/LF where there should be CR. Try running d2u. And read the list for > more gotchas due to the bash upgrade. > Essentially correct but I believe you meant to say that CR/LF should be a LF. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/