On 27/02/2018 15:47, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Numien!
While working on diagnosing an issue with autotools, I found Cygwin's
bash seems to not be able to set a variable from backtick substitution,
at least on my system (Cygwin x86_64, updated today, on Win10)
On a Linux system it works as expected:
$ test=`echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//'`; echo $test
x86_64-pc
On a Cygwin system it doesn't:
$ test=`echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed 's/-[^-]*$//'`; echo $test
(no output)
I'm unable to reproduce it here.
it works also for me
This also happens in scripts (where I originally encountered the
problem), not just on the command line.
Directly outputting it (echo `echo "x86_64-pc-cygwin" | sed
's/-[^-]*$//'`) works fine, it seems to be specifically related to
setting a variable.
Any suggestions?
Any BLODA?
likely. Someone just had similar problem with sed invocation
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48927435/cygwin-command-substitution-not-working
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