Greetings, Nicholas Clark! > You're certainly right that there are nicer ways to write that script. > My point with the sample script above is that I'm currently using a > Windows-style HOME path, and it works fine.
If it would stop working, you'll have to o and revisit your mess to pull the cruft out of the pipes. > Chances are there are a bunch of other users out there who also use a > Windows-style HOME path in messy .bat files - I just wanted to > illuminate that making Windows paths illegal is likely to break a > whole bunch of users' scripts, and really offers no benefit. Chances are, they can go and revisit their mess once in a lifetime. When 1.7.35 came out, I went and dug up every corner of my system to make sure I no longer have the need for wrappers like yours. Recently I started to write portable scripts for my private project and I've replaced Cygwin's /bin/sh (which is in fact bash) with a symlink to /bin/dash. We'll see how far I can go with it. Already found a number of scripts that break under strict POSIX shell. None of them Cygwin scripts. Yet. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, August 6, 2015 14:26:24 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
