running bash script in cygwin on windows 7 [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you can't fix all your scripts, you should be able to modify the EOL behavior in Cygwin by setting an option to ignore CRs:

set -o igncr

If you add this to your .bash_profile, it will be globally set by default when you login:

export SHELLOPTS
set -o igncr

You can also do this per script internally by putting this line just after the #! line:

(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # this comment is required

You need the comment to ignore the CR in that line which is read before the option takes effect.

Answer 2

The latest version of Cygwin seems to only support files in Unix format (i.e. with \n for newlines as opposed to the DOS/Windows \r\n newline).

To fix this, run the /bin/dos2unix.exe utility, giving your script as the argument to the command:

e.g. /bin/dos2unix.exe myScript.sh

This will convert it to Unix format and you then should be able to run it.