diff --git a/src/universal/bin/sbt b/src/universal/bin/sbt
index 8ada3d5f4..004d4a4f6 100755
--- a/src/universal/bin/sbt
+++ b/src/universal/bin/sbt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ process_my_args () {
 }
 
 loadConfigFile() {
-  cat "$1" | sed '/^\#/d' | while read line; do
+  cat "$1" | sed '/^\#/d;s/\r$//' | while read line; do
     eval echo $line
   done
 }