env: bash\r: No such file or directory [duplicate]

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I'm trying to install YouCompleteMe from here.

When I execute:

./install.sh --clang-completer

I get this error:

env: bash\r: No such file or directory

I don't know what's wrong with environment variables. Here's my bash path:

which bash 
/bin/bash

Do I need to change it to /usr/bash? If yes, then how should I do that? I tried changing ~/.bashrc file, but it didn't work.

If your error was an error, it would probably contain the word "error". It is good that the "bash\r" file was not found because file names can't contain "\". — David Smolinski
– David Smolinski, Commented Nov 23, 2020 at 1:35
A quick fix :) just edit your script in notepad ++ editor and change the EOL conversion to UNIX(LF). I have also faced same issue after changing the EOL conversion to UNIX(LF) it is start working. — Aryashree Pritikrishna
– Aryashree Pritikrishna, Commented Dec 23, 2020 at 6:00
WSL on Windows? See: After installing npm on WSL Ubuntu 20.04 I get the message "/usr/bin/env: ‘bash\r’: No such file or directory — Zymotik
– Zymotik, Commented Nov 16, 2021 at 16:29

mklement0 · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-02 15:59:32Z

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The error message suggests that the script you're invoking has embedded \r characters, which in turn suggests that it has Windows-style \r\n line endings (newlines) instead of the \n-only line endings bash expects.

As a quick fix, you can remove the \r chars. as follows:

sed $'s/\r$//' ./install.sh > ./install.Unix.sh

^{Note: The $'...' string is an ANSI-C quoted string supported in bash, ksh, and zsh. It is used to ensure that the \r expands to an actual CR character before sed sees the script, because not all sed implementations themselves support \r as an escape sequence.}

and then run

./install.Unix.sh --clang-completer

However, the larger question is why you've ended up with \r\n-style files - most likely, other files are affected, too.

Perhaps you're running Git on Windows, where a typical configuration is to convert Unix-style \n-only line breaks to Windows-style \r\n line breaks on checking files out and re-converting to \n-only line breaks on committing.

While this somewhat makes sense for development^[1] on Windows, it gets in the way of installation scenarios like these.

To make Git check out files with Unix-style file endings on Windows - at least temporarily - use:

git config --global core.autocrlf false

Then run your installation commands involving git clone again.

To restore Git's behavior later, run git config --global core.autocrlf true.

^{[1] These days, most editors and CLIs on Windows can handle \r\n and \n newlines interchangeably.}

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answered Mar 14, 2015 at 3:41

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Cedric Reichenbach Over a year ago

Had a similar issue with sbt installed through sdkman. For such cases, it's useful to first locate the problematic script with whereis sbt, then apply above command.

greendino Over a year ago

sed: can't read ./install.sh: No such file or directory

rekire Over a year ago

Quiet strange I got the same error, but my line endings are fine. I checked it with xxd. This is related to WSL and the solution is in another comment above

iAmSauravSharan Over a year ago

I had been facing a similar issue, this helped me - stackoverflow.com/a/78819982/10633930

salvi shahzad · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-09 18:46:07Z

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It is happening due to windows line endings. To fix the issue follow below steps

For MAC:

brew install dos2unix # Installs dos2unix Mac
find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \; # recursively removes windows related stuff

For Linux:

sudo apt-get install -y dos2unix # Installs dos2unix Linux
sudo find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \; # recursively removes windows related stuff

And make sure your git config is set as follows:

git config --global core.autocrlf input

input makes sure to convert CRLF to LF when writing to the object database

edited May 9, 2022 at 18:46

answered Sep 16, 2020 at 6:53

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Sahesh Over a year ago

Thanks a lot. I had an issue when running a RN project. react-native run-android wasn't working. Tried all the possible scenarios to fix the issue. Finally this helps to fix that.

aryat Over a year ago

@salvi I followed above steps in my project folder after deleting node modules but in vscode terminal it works fine but not in WSL2 terminal why so?

ElKePoN Over a year ago

This doesn't work for mac, I still get the same message

salvi shahzad Over a year ago

@ElKePoN make sure your git config is set as per the last step

ElKePoN Over a year ago

Actually it should be true, not input. What is input used for? This is how it should be git config --global core.autocrlf true

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Tuan Nguyen · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-27 10:39:03Z

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>vim gradlew
:set fileformat=unix
:wq
>./gradlew clean build

answered Dec 27, 2018 at 10:39

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John · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-05 00:38:16Z

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If you are using VS Code, you can switch from CRLF to LF and save the file again. This will replace all CRLF with LF.

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Hessah Over a year ago

This works even in Windows 👍🏻

LucianoBAF Over a year ago

Tested on Windows and confirmed it worked. Just restart the container in Docker after saving the file and it should work.

Harry Over a year ago

This! spent a good few hours trying to various methods and it came down to this on the windows machine.

igonejack · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-15 06:07:50Z

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Quick command for converting line ending:

dos2unix thescript.sh

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mklement0 · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-14 04:29:59Z

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Your file has Windows line endings. Change to Unix line endings.

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Michael Harris · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02 18:08:40Z

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Ran into something similar. You can use dos2unix install.sh to convert the line endings. Multiple files via find [pattern] | xargs dos2unix

answered Feb 2, 2017 at 18:08

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s.ouchène Over a year ago

You could use: find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;

luckyhandler · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-16 07:52:07Z

In my case I had a wrong git configuration. The git documentation states:

If you’re programming on Windows and working with people who are not (or vice-versa), you’ll probably run into line-ending issues at some point

I'm using Mac OS and I exactly have this issue in one of my projects. To solve it I turned autocrlf to true which was wrong.

You can check the autocrlf state of your git configuration like this:

git config core.autocrlf

So if this returns true and the problem occurs within a git repository you'll have to change that configuration to

git config --global core.autocrlf input

on a Mac / Unix system. For Windows only projects you can use

git config --global core.autocrlf false

In my case I deleted the git repository and cloned it again and after that everything worked again as expected.

Find out more at https://www.git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configuration

despotbg · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-02 19:22:16Z

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I used to have this problem when I tried to downgrade flutter

this solved my issue

rm -rf flutter
git config --global core.autocrlf false
git clone [email protected]:flutter/flutter.git
flutter channel stable

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Raghav D · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-07 08:38:25Z

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This link helped me solving the issue. https://github.com/tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask-docker/issues/127

I edited my .sh file, replacing all CRLF with LF

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salvi shahzad Over a year ago

That's a very terrible thing to do. Please refer to the numerous better solutions provided above.

Abdelrahman Tareq · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-30 18:48:23Z

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In my case: This error occurs when I downloaded and unzip the WINDOWS version into MAC

and then added the windows version path to .bash_profile or .zprofile

so the solution for me was to remove the paths from (.bash_profile and .zprofile) then download the mac version by opening the terminal and type:

mkdir src
cd src
git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable
export PATH="$PATH:pwd/flutter/bin"
flutter doctor

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