Cygwin Bash cannot execute DOS formatted scripts
by Frank Kim on Mar.07, 2007, under Cygwin, Windows
As of bash 3.2.9-10, bash no longer executes DOS formatted scripts as detailed in this announcement. I understand the reasoning for this is that:
- cygwin is supposed to mimic Linux, not Windows
- it is faster to assume that the scripts are in UNIX format
To get around this restriction I did what was recommended in this bug report, i.e. I created a Windows user environment variable named “SHELLOPTS” with the value “igncr”.
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