On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote: > I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under > cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7.
Your shell script is incorrect, and I don't see how it worked under 1.5. This line: > set EXPLOR='/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe' does NOT set a variable named EXPLOR. Instead, it sets the first positional argument ($1) to the string "EXPLOR=/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe". Whatever the old value of $1 was, it's now gone. To fix, get rid of the "set". In sh and derivatives, "set" sets the positional arguments (and optionally flags that affect the shell's behavior); it does NOT set variables. Just use the assignment syntax (var=value) by itself for that. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.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
