Cygwin: why we required "export SHELLOPTS; set -o igncr"

Question

When I tried running my shell script earlier it said end of file error. But after running the following two commands it started running fine.

export SHELLOPTS 
set -o igncr

please explain what is the reason behind this.

Which 2 commands? please post the relevant data in question! — Aditya, Mar 08 '16 at 13:53

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '16 at 14:35

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set -o igncr causes the shell ignore windows line endings (skip \r). Another solution would be to fix the script by running dos2unix on it.

answered Mar 08 '16 at 14:35

choroba

`dos2unix` on script won't help, subscripts will still be broken. – puchu Apr 27 '21 at 22:14

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '21 at 10:36

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Please don't use bash -o igncr or set -o igncr in modern cygwin bash >= 3.2.

You can pass global env SHELLOPTS=igncr before executing your script and forget about carriage return issues.

answered Apr 28 '21 at 10:36

puchu

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