It didn't matter if I believed what I read on the internet or not, I couldn't get the IF-statement to work, and when I queried a unix user, he wasn't sure at first, and so I thought maybe it was a cygwin-specific issue. The issue was finalized and complete before schulman's detour, and this small thread doesn't detract from this forum's large corpus.
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>. Reformatted. > > On 10/27/2009 05:34 PM, briglass111 wrote: >> Andrew Schulman-3 wrote: >>> >>>> good job, bash >>> >>> This is the Cygwin list. Please take non-Cygwin-related comments >>> elsewhere. >> >> before i knew that bash was white-space picky, i thought this may be a >> cygwin >> issue because i read a bit about people saying bash is different in >> cygwin >> than in unix, and i got the if-statement code from a website about unix, >> and >> when it didn't run in cygwin's bash i figured it was a cygwin-specific >> issue > > Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Yes, I recognize this > statement is a paradox. ;-) > >> thanks, andrew schulman, for taking a detour from your sad life to post >> that > > Actually, Andrew's life is very happy. He's full of exuberance and glee. > We just > restrain him on this list so that it doesn't show. It just wouldn't be > fair > to have > him flaunting his happiness in the face of the rest of us who live a life > of > tedium > and despair on the Cygwin list... > > ;-) > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > A: Yes. > > Q: Are you sure? > >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bash---IF-Statement-tp26084169p26085849.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
