Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/26/16:32:46
Thanks, that seems to be the best approach for now. If I get *really*
motivated, I'll
try to find where the shell is setting up the pipe from the back quoted
command and
make sure that it's reading that pipe in text mode.
-ST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 6:11 PM
> To: Tarr, Stephen F; 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
> Subject: Re: shell back quote expansion problem
>
> --- "Tarr, Stephen F" <stephen DOT f DOT tarr AT opbu DOT xerox DOT com> wrote:
> > I first found this problem with B20, and it still exists in the latest
> (June
> > 23) binaries
> > from sourceware.cygnus.com. It affects both bash and tcsh, and probably
> > other
> > shells as well. It appears when running on both 95 and NT 4.
> >
> > If I use back-quote expansion on a command from the cygwin package,
> > everything
> > works fine. If I use back-quote expansion on a native Win32
> command-line
> > program
> > (that prints CR-LF at the end of each line of stdout), the shell
> expansion
> > fails.
> -8<-
> >
> > Is there some simple workaround or environment setting that I'm missing,
> or
> > is this a real bug?
> >
>
> Ummm... I would say it's a Win32 feature. However, have you tried `SET
> CYGWIN=nobinmode notty'. This should set all non-disk operations to text
> mode
> processing which will strip the \r for you.
>
> HTH,
>
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