Apparently, the attachment in my previous email got dropped. Here it is again.
- Howard On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:29:31 -0400, Howard Mak wrote: > I can't seem to get the latest version of bash to work with the command > PROGRAM `cat file_containing_arguments.txt` > when the file is created on a textmode mount. Seems like carriage returns > are not processed correctly. > > I've attached a test script illustrating the problem. > > Comments: > > - The problem does not seem to appear in older version of bash (ver > 3.1.17(6)) > > - I tried using different settings for the shell option igncr, but it > didn't seem to help > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > - Howard
#!/usr/bin/bash # # Following 2 tests should both pass. # Instead, 1st test fails in newer version of bash, but not on older version. shopt -s igncr pwd # Result: /c/tmp mount # Result: # c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) # C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode) # C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode) # C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode) # c: on /c type system (textmode) # d: on /d type system (textmode) # j: on /j type system (textmode) # k: on /k type system (textmode) # t: on /t type system (textmode) # y: on /y type user (textmode) # z: on /z type user (textmode) ################################################################################ # Test 1 # Passes in bash 3.1.17(6)-release # Fails in bash 3.1.17(9)-release echo bar.txt > bar.txt od -c bar.txt # Result: # 0000000 b a r . t x t \r \n # 0000011 notepad `cat bar.txt` # Open fails because `cat` output returns CR? ################################################################################ # Test 2 # Passes in bash 3.1.17(6)-release # Passes in bash 3.1.17(9)-release dos2unix -U bar.txt od -c bar.txt # Result: # 0000000 b a r . t x t \n # 0000010 notepad `cat bar.txt`
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