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Questions tagged [msys]

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Handling Bash script with CRLF (carriage return) in Linux as in MSYS2?

Let's say I have the following trivial script, tmp.sh: echo "testing" stat . echo "testing again" Trivial as it is, it has \r\n (that is, CRLF, that is carriage return+line feed) as line endings. Since the webpage will not preserve the line…
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paste: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory

I'm new to Unix command. I was trying to execute the following commands in Git Bash and it directs to error message: paste: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory # Set Up Image Lists paste <(awk "{print \"$PWD\"}" <5k.part) 5k.part | tr -d '\t' >…
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Calling java from Bash: "Cannot execute binary file"

I have this simple Bash script: #!/bin/bash java -jar ClosureCompiler/compiler.jar --js ../src/typescript.js --js ../src/ts-compiler.js --js_output_file TSCompiler.js I'm getting this error when I try to run the script using build.sh in the MSYS…
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What does it mean if a process has an O or an I at the start of the line?

After running ps, I noticed that a couple of the processes had an O at the start of the line. In all my years, I've never seen this. I thought that the meaning of the indicator might be common knowledge, but I asked my circle of software…
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How do I display a manpage with groff in/on msysgit?

I've been unable to correctly set up a MANPATH environment variable in msysgit (1.9.0; 20140217) on Windows 7 (which is not my main concern here). Every time I execute the man command, I recieve the following errors: /usr/local/lib/man.config: No…
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Exclude from rsync log file or output non-updated files

For rsyncs that involve a large number of potentially transferred files, I mean to have a "clean" log, with only what was transferred. I worked with stdout, since: I did not know how to configure the log output (if that is even possible). I also…
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Is there implicit path conversion in Cygwin?

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion For any executable not dependent on msys-1.0.dll, MSYS will convert POSIX paths that are used as arguments to Win32 paths. This page attempts to document the heuristics MSYS uses to decide which…
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MSYS2 why doesn't adding "mingw" to fstab have any effect?

The package I'm working on uses Autotools -- autoconf, libtools, configure, etc. I'm developing with MinGW-W64 on Windows XP sp3. In it's infinite wisdom, libtools has decided that my system files (NATIVE_SYSTEM_HEADER_DIR) are in /mingw/include. …
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build script: how to implement a "skip previously completed step"

I'm trying to create a build script for GCC (which works, for now), but I would like to be able to skip rebuilding all the prereq libraries when I'm only updating GCC/binutils for example. I thought of making the script create a file in the main…
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Is it possible to use the magnet uri scheme in PKGBUILDs?

Is it possible to use resources exchanged with the BitTorrent protocol in pacman's PKGBUILDs?
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git-bash window title issue

I started a git-bash window, and type following commands : git-bash ~$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.4.23(1)-release git-bash ~$ type cd cd is a shell builtin git-bash ~$ cd tmp git-bash ~/tmp$ # Change of directory is NOT refelected on git-bash window…
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Is there a convenient way to test if a given flag is supported on a command?

Okay, so I'm kinda stumped here. I'm in the midst of a deep-dive into BASH, for the purposes of writing some automation scripts for my employer. Also, full disclosure here: I'm a web guy; hitherto I've known JUST enough CLI to operate git. My issue…
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Inspect/browse gzipped dd disk image from command line without decompressing and mounting?

I did a disk image, as per How to dd a remote disk using SSH on local machine and save to a local disk : ssh user@remote "dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 -" | dd of=image.gz` Now, I would just like to doublecheck this image - see the partitions included,…
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Why does `ldd ` output "??? => ???" (question marks in both library and location)?

Running ldd , I noticed that there are some entries that read ??? => ???. Searching for a variety of combinations of "Linux", "ldd" and "??? => ???", both via search engine and on this site did not turn up anything. Possibly relevant:…
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LS_COLORS not respected on Cygwin

Whilst trying to configure ls' colors on Cygwin (specifically the distro babun), I found that the custom extension colors that were in the LS_COLORS environment variable weren't being used. Here's an…
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