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new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49

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From: agneray christian <cagneray_devoteam <at> yahoo.fr>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:25:35 +0000 (GMT)

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Hello,
I have 2 new (to me) problems, probably with differents
causes, so I'm posting each one separatly:

1/ new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49

2/ heap allocation on Windows Vista

1/ new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49

I'm using "sh-3.00" since years on my winXP
desktop. I get used to fews bugs that can be easily avoid ( eg [ ! a file.txt ] ).

Lately, I tried the "bash, version 3.2.49" (Latest Cygwin DLL release version is
1.7.7-1). 

Running script now stop during the lexical parsing with
message like:

/cygdrive/c/open/wpkg/wa.sh:
wa.sh: line 38: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

'cygdrive/c/open/wpkg/wa.sh:
wa.sh: line 38: `;;esac

When I add en # comment at the end of line, the error
vanishes.

The cause can easily be found. In the meantime (3.00 - 3.2)
the newline routine has been changed ; this issue has already been identified,
with no fixed decision cf (2006-06/msg00863)

So when I use a windows editor (notepad.exe) to edit my script I won't
escape this limitation.

Is there any action planned ?

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00863.html

/cygdrive/c/Documents: line 48: syntax error near unexpected
token `newline'

I renamed the local "getline" into
"get_line" in all files, and it was enough.


Christian



      

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Message #8 received at 7624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: agneray christian <cagneray_devoteam <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 7624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7624: new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:01:52 -0700

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On 12/12/2010 08:25 AM, agneray christian wrote:
> Lately, I tried the "bash, version 3.2.49" (Latest Cygwin DLL release version is
> 1.7.7-1). 

You may be better off asking questions related to cygwin on the cygwin
mailing list.

> 
> Running script now stop during the lexical parsing with
> message like:
> 
> /cygdrive/c/open/wpkg/wa.sh:
> wa.sh: line 38: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> 
> 'cygdrive/c/open/wpkg/wa.sh:
> wa.sh: line 38: `;;esac

Most likely, you accidentally inserted literal carriage returns (\r)
into your file, but did not tell bash that you want to ignore carriage
returns.  This is a symptom that is typically limited to cygwin
installations, and has nothing to do with coreutils.  Run 'd2u wa.sh' to
remove those carriage returns.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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Message #11 received at 7624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 7624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, agneray christian <cagneray_devoteam <at> yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#7624: new line in bash 3.00/3.2.49
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:07:50 +0100

tags 7634 notabug
close 7634
tags 7624 notabug
close 7624
tags 7625 notabug
close 7625
thanks

Hi Eric,
Thanks for replying.  I've tagged a few as non-bugs and closed them.

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