On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:13:01PM -0500, Garrison, Jim wrote: >In bash: > > $ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\"" > "c:\temp" > > >But in Perl: > > $a = `cygpath -w /c/temp`; > print "|$a|"; > >produces > >|c:\temp >| > >I.e., Perl sees an extra \n at the end of the string. I looked at >the source for cygpath and it doesn't seem to be adding a \n, so >I suspect the problem is an unforeseen interaction between Cygwin >and Perl's backtick operator. Can anyone shed light on this topic?
I don't see anything unforeseen about the above behavior. Substitute /bin/echo for the cygpath above and you'll see the same behavior on UNIX. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
