env: bash\r: No such file or directory

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.

Solution 1:

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 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 makes sense for development 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.

Solution 2:

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

Solution 3:

As the above comments say, it is happening due to windows line endings. To fix the issue follow these 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

Solution 4:

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