An AWK-ward problem...

Thu Nov 24 09:19:00 GMT 2011

On Nov 23 15:21, Flint, Paul wrote:
> Greetings List lurkers,
>> I have been troubleshooting some new bash script that I wrote and wanted (for some reason :^) to run on an NT box.
>> So the struggle began...
>> Anyway I get the oddest error:
>> <snip>
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
> warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in sendjcl.log.
> <snap>
>> So... I check my code and check my code... soon the problem begins to drive me mad...
>> Then!
>> I do this from a cygwin ver 2.761 terminal...
>> $cd /c/cygwin/bin
> $dos2unix awk
>> Now awk works!

I don't believe in this solution:
- The above error messages are not Cygwin gawk error messages. They
 look like bash error messages. Bash doesn't understand CRLF line
 endings in scripts unless you explicitly allow that.
- /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is apparently the name of a
 shell script. /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is certainly
 not /bin/awk.
- /bin/awk is a symlink to /bin/gawk.exe, an executable. If you call
 dos2unix on an executable, the executable will be either unchanged,
 or broken with a high probability.
- Even if it doesn't matter in this scenario, Cygwin's gawk understands
 CRLF line endings in awk scripts.
Corinna
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