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Re: Script broken after updating bash to 4.3.46-7?


Greetings, Gene Pavlovsky!

> Looks like it's related to a recent change in bash, which is `read`
> now honors Cygwin-specific `igncr` shell option (`set -o igncr`),
> which I didn't enable.
> Adding `set -o igncr` to the top of the script does the job, however
> I'd like to know how many more scripts are potentially malfunctioning
> now?
> It's lucky that one sent e-mails on errors, some others might just
> break silently.
> Is it advisable to add `set -o igncr` to /etc/profile or SHELLOPTS? I
> didn't use that feature before and am worried about some other
> negative side effects.

It is advisable to not have CR's in your scripts to begin with.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, August 27, 2016 19:14:10

Sorry for my terrible english...


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