[This is an combination of a couple of replies to the various emails
since last evening.]
Pierre Gaston wrote:
cygwin's bash is patched and provides a special igncr shopt option.
try shopt -s igncr
And with the ability to pass options to Bash on invocation with -o, this
provides a better solu
that
it only appeared to work; in fact what was happening is that the CR
character was being passed to echo as part of the argument, and it
didn't affect the output. In fact, if you put a space after the 'a' and
'b', echo receives two arguments beyond the command
