Hi All,
Trying to get the right form of quoting and command substitution with output
containing spaces.
Given the following two lines in a bash script:
x=$(echo '1 2 3 x')
y="$(echo '1 2 3 x')"
According to bash manual:
"The shell scans the results of parameter expansion, command subst
Again, 'cause clever mail client removed multiple spaces...
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Hi All,
Trying to get the right form of quoting and command substitution with output
containing spaces.
Given the following two lines in a bash script:
x=$(echo '1 2 3 x')
y="$(echo '1 2 3 x')"
According to bash manual:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the ouput of $(echo '1 2 3 x') should go through word splitting and x
Word splitting does not occur in the right-hand side of an assignment.
>From the manual:
A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form
name=[value]
If va
2008/10/22 sbremal
> Hi All,
>
> Trying to get the right form of quoting and command substitution with output
> containing spaces.
>
> Given the following two lines in a bash script:
>
> x=$(echo '1 2 3 x')
> y="$(echo '1 2 3 x')"
Those are pretty much equivalent, but not because of when s
Not cygwin related.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:55 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: bash: Word splitting but when?
Hi All,
Trying to get the right form of quoting and command su
Thank you for pointing out that section of the manual. Surely this explains the
behaviour...
Cheers,
Balazs
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:14:19 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: bash: Word splitting but when?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> the ouput of $(ec
>>> I can reproduce it, too. However, I can not reproduce it on Windows
>>> Server 2008 x64 so it seems a problem of the NT 5.2 kernel alone.
>>> I tried debugging and changed a couple of places in the DLL as well
>>> as in cygrunsrv trying to track it down. The hang does not occur in
>>> Cygwin
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