On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:00PM +0100, Philippe Scelers wrote: >Hi, >When setting a variable with the output of a command, the content of >variable is not correct when passed through ssh command, but works fine >within a ssh session. >Looks like remote interactive session with ssh enter Cygwin (uname -s = >CYGWIN_NT-5.1), but remote command with ssh does not (uname -s = >Windows_NT) > >And ideas would be appreciated! > >My tests, executing same command line to highlight problem > >The following remote ssh command fail ($a ends with '\r'): >ssh frgbuild@win32-xp-ps 'echo "`uname -a`" ; set -x ; a=`uname -r` ; >b=`uname -rs` ; echo "a=$a=EOA=" ; echo "b=$b=EOB=" ; set +x' >Windows_NT WIN32-XP-PS 5 01 586 >++ uname -r >+ a=$'5\r' >++ uname -rs >=EOA= >=EOB=dows_NT 5 >' b='Windows_NT 5 >+ echo $'a=5\r=EOA=' >=EOB=' 'b=Windows_NT 5
Sure looks like you're not running the Cygwin version of uname here. That would be consistent with \r\n line endings. cgf -- 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
