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Re: bash expansion question


"Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" wrote:
> 
> At 09:28 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hello -
> >
> >I have cygwin b20 running on WinNT SP6
> >
> >at the command line I get the following:
> >
> >$ foo=bar/baz
> >$ echo ${foo%%/*}
> >foo
> >
> >However, if I have the following in a script:
> >
> >foo=bar/baz
> >echo ${foo%%/*}
> >
> >and then run it, I get
> >$ test.sh
> >ba
> >
> >It seems to be dropping one too many characters.  It seems I've either
> >found an expansion bug or I'm misunderstanding something.  Testing this
> >on my linux box (bash 1.14.7), it works as expected.  Can someone
> >clarify this for me?  Thanks a lot.
> >
> 
> Sounds like a text/binary thing to me.  Try setting adding "binmode" to
> your CYGWIN environment variable and restarting bash...

Thanks for the suggestion, Larry.  I tried it and it seems to have had
no effect.  Can anyone duplicate this by chance?

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