Failed to install brew-cask v0.53.3, Error: No such file or directory - brew-cask

[vinnyang]

brew-cask just suddenly stopped working…

Error: No such file or directory - brew-cask

I tried re-installing brew-cask, and even homebrew itself, but after all that I am still getting this same error:

Please let me know what other info I can provide to help debug this.
Thanks in advance!

[phinze]

That's not good!

Thanks for the report... feels upstreamy... going to try repro locally. Stand by!

[phinze]

Ok I verified sanity locally, so let's see what's going on over on your side. Can you check to see if your executable works if you address it directly?

/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.53.3/bin/brew-cask

[vinnyang]

This is what I got…

 $ /usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.53.3/bin/brew-cask
 zsh: /usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.53.3/bin/brew-cask: bad interpreter: /bin/bash^M: no such file or directory

my zsh version:

zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)

and, running that inside iTerm2.

[vinnyang]

Not sure where it got the /bin/bash^M from, however /bin/bash is actually there and I believe it is the bash-3.2 that comes with my version of OS X

[phinze]

Hmmm .... sounds like git might be configured to clone things with windows line endings?

Can you move your ~/.gitconfig out of the way and retry?

[vinnyang]

😞

[phinze]

Dang! So weird! 😞

Well you can manually repair that executable by removing the ^M character(s) from it.

I still suspect it's git related - you could try to see if there are any other git configs sneaking line ending settings in there. A good starting point on learning about git's line-ending support is here: https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/

[vinnyang]

Thanks! Changing the EOL characters in that executable fixed the issue for me, but surely this is a very weird issue.