Cygwin command not found bad characters found in .bashrc 357\273\277

Question

I\'m new to Cygwin, I just installed it and attempted to set some simple environment variables. However, when I open the command shell, I get the error \"#357\\273\\277 com

Answer 1

One way to strip these is in Linux is by using vi. If you say

vi filename

and then in vi use the ed command :se fileencoding=ASCII

this will strip the oddball characters out.

You can confirm this by saving the file and then running od -c on the file.

Before: od -c changes.sql | head 0000000 357 273 277 I N S E R T I N T O `

After: od -c changes.sql | head 0000000 I N S E R T I N T O ` c o n