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Re: shell back quote expansion problem
- To: "Tarr, Stephen F" <stephen dot f dot tarr at opbu dot xerox dot com>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: shell back quote expansion problem
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:11:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Tarr, Stephen F" <stephen.f.tarr@opbu.xerox.com> wrote:
> I first found this problem with B20, and it still exists in the latest (June
> 23) binaries
> from sourceware.cygnus.com. It affects both bash and tcsh, and probably
> other
> shells as well. It appears when running on both 95 and NT 4.
>
> If I use back-quote expansion on a command from the cygwin package,
> everything
> works fine. If I use back-quote expansion on a native Win32 command-line
> program
> (that prints CR-LF at the end of each line of stdout), the shell expansion
> fails.
-8<-
>
> Is there some simple workaround or environment setting that I'm missing, or
> is this a real bug?
>
Ummm... I would say it's a Win32 feature. However, have you tried `SET
CYGWIN=nobinmode notty'. This should set all non-disk operations to text mode
processing which will strip the \r for you.
HTH,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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