The 'culprit file' was .bash_aliases. It had the naughty (ASCII for the octal string Bash was detecting and returning an error about). I cleaned it up in Pico (see my post to the thread on favorite editors if you want background on why I use Pico/Nano), re-sourced it via .bash_profile, then .bashrc, and everything seems OK. I quit out of my external {yeah, but not really} RXVT and launched it again and the error was gone.
Fingers crossed it stays gone for good.
BZT
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I don't know for sure what I did, but this morning after making a few changes with my title bar and prompt, as soon as I launch my Cygwin RXVT terminal outside of X-Windows, or my urxvt terminal Inside it, I get the following error:
I've seen it on one line, two lines and three. I thought at first it was a UTF-8 with BOM issue, but it doesn't appear to be so. This last launch brought it up after my motd (which I puzzled out has to be "cat"-ed in since there was no other way I could find to show it that worked) and my Quote Of The Day, for which I use the "toy" application fortune to read in from a fortune-cookie file of my own making. To help you visualize this, here's the rest of my startup messages:
I thought this octal-string error may also have been caused by a faulty RXVT, so I ran the setup and re-installed it. Likewise BASH. Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking it may be a corrupt config file that Cygwin's bash is having trouble reading in (parsing) correctly. I've already checked the line endings on everything that rates as a config file and vaguely resembles a bash shell script, and I was able to see and fix a few naughty characters in .bash_profile and .xinitrc. If it is a corrupt startup config file, the question is: which one?
How would I go about finding out which of the files is either bad or refuses to be corrected via editing?
BZT
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Reason: Problem Solved (for the moment at least)
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rbash
RBASH(1) General Commands Manual RBASH(1)NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1)RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is
used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow-
ing are disallowed or not performed:
o changing directories with cd
o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV
o specifying command names containing /
o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command
o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command
o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup
o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup
o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators
o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command
o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command
o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins
o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command
o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted.
These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read.
When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script.
SEE ALSO bash(1)GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)