A curl utility problem that strongly effects my work with Bash on Windows

[ghost]

This is not a WSL problem per se, but deals heavily with Bash in Windows (Linux users seem not to encounter this). It roams my work with WSL and avoids me from working with curl smoothly:

I have this [remote Bash script][1] In GitHub that I already executed successfully line by line, several times (in different versions).

As it is quite frustrating to copy paste all lines each test, I tried to execute the remote Bash script by its raw form with curl, but it fails in various tries:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benqzq/uncwe/master/install.sh)

or

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benqzq/uncwe/master/install.sh | bash

Both failed totally after about 3 seconds with the error:

/dev/fd/63: line 7: $'\r': command not found

I theorized I might need to translate out all carriage returns, hence tried:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benqzq/uncwe/master/install.sh | tr -d '\r' | bash

This brought partial execution of the script. For example, while apt-get install, export,git clone, rm -rf ${repo}/.git/, and a few other operations went fine, the wget/unzip and processing of a few files with leading tabs failed to be processed correctly.

I thought it might be that GitHub GUI changes leading whitespaces from tab to space and vice versa, in some sections in the code, so I tried to change all leading whitespaces into tabulations:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benqzq/uncwe/master/install.sh | sed "s/^ */\t/" | tr -d '\r' | bash

The result was seemingly identical to the previous one.

Due these 4 ways fail, I wonder what else is available. Sadly I've yet to find other examples in Google.

[therealkenc]

/dev/fd/63: line 7: $'\r': command not found

#2365 #2551

Run it though dos2unix before feeding it to bash.

[ghost]

@therealkenc I can't test at the moment but I assume you meant to pipe it through dos2unix before feeding it to bash?

[therealkenc]

I assume you meant to pipe it through dos2unix

Sure, if you want to be all fancy about it.

[ghost]

I now saw that dos2unix isn't native in Ubuntu. Crap. I than have execute apt-get install dos2unix before running the curl, this results in a long ugly command in deployment:

apt-get install dos2unix -y && curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benqzq/uncwe/master/install.sh | dos2unix | bash

[benhillis]

Or you could reupload your script atfter running dos2unix on it.

[benhillis]

git clone https://github.com/benqzq/ulcwe.git
cd ulcwe
sudo apt install dos2unix
dos2unix install.sh
git commit -a -m "change line endings to unix-style"
git push

[ghost]

AFAIK if I run the install.sh script with curl before installing dos2unix, it will fail, so dos2unix should be installed before the curl.

Thanks anyway,