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Re: base-files patch
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:34:26 +0000
- Subject: Re: base-files patch
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Blake wrote (snipped):
>
>
> Most shells understand "`""`" (particularly, all official shells on
> Cygwin, which is what's important).
True enough, and I concede that POSIX requires it to work.
> In fact, in this particular case,
> it's probably better to use "``" instead of `""`, IMO.
No, "`echo $0|tr ...`" does the wrong thing if $0 is "two spaces/sh" (it passes just one space to tr, instead of two), while `echo "$0"|tr ...` works correctly.
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