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Doug
Doug

Reputation: 3

Cygwin bash concatenate variables results in $'VALUE1/VALUE2\r'

I am creating a script in bash using CYGWIN.

This is essentially what I have:

#!/bin/bash

username=someuser
passwd=someuserpasswd
hostname=thehost
port=1521
sid=dbname

When I concatenate the variables, as in

LOGIN_STR=${username}/${passwd}@${hostname}:${port}/${sid}
echo "Login String = $LOGIN_STR"

The result is:

Login String = $'someuser/someuserpasswd\r@thehost:1521/dbname\r'

To login into sqlplus, obviously this will not work.

I've also tried LOGIN_STR=$username/$passwd@$hostname:$port/$sid.. Same result.

I understand this probably is related to how Windows handles carriage returns vs Unix. What I'm not clear is what I need to do to cause this to not happen any longer.

Thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 563

Answers (1)

Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly

Reputation: 1381

Be sure to do this in your .bash_profile or equivalent:

export SHELLOPTS
set -o igncr

This will take care of these types of carriage-return problems inside of Cygwin.

Upvotes: 1

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