Re: Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-28 Thread Numien
On 2018-02-27 03:37 PM, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4...@kylheku.com> wrote: >> >> On 2018-02-27 09:10, Numien wrote: >>> Jürgen Wagner nailed it; it was my antivirus, and disabling the >>> shellcode injection check fixed it. >> However, this time-wasting

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Vince Rice
> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4...@kylheku.com> wrote: > > On 2018-02-27 09:10, Numien wrote: >> Jürgen Wagner nailed it; it was my antivirus, and disabling the >> shellcode injection check fixed it. > > However, this time-wasting pattern of dealing with the issue by end use

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 2018-02-27 09:10, Numien wrote: Jürgen Wagner nailed it; it was my antivirus, and disabling the shellcode injection check fixed it. However, this time-wasting pattern of dealing with the issue by end users is not a good way. A better approach would be to identify some common paterns of BL

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Numien
Jürgen Wagner nailed it; it was my antivirus, and disabling the shellcode injection check fixed it. Thanks everyone for the help. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
going back to the mailing list... On 27/02/2018 16:53, Jürgen Wagner wrote: Hi,   the expression you posted works on my Cygwin. However, I've had similar failures in the past. If you are a user of Comodo CIS/AntiVirus, check out the settings for shellcode injection. Enable the checks, allow all

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-02-27 07:12, Numien wrote: > 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=`e

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Marco Atzeri
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

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread Andrey Repin
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-

Re: Setting a bash variable from backtick operator fails

2018-02-27 Thread cyg Simple
On 2/27/2018 9:12 AM, Numien wrote: > 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: > >