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Date:	Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:11:51 -0400
From:	Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To:	Andreas Eibach <a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net>
Cc:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: "Accent problem" still not fixed in current cygwin release
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In-Reply-To:	<00ef01c00596$5bbfbea0$ee8706d5@default>; from a.eibach@gmx.net on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:21:29AM +0200
Organization:	Dot Hill Systems Corp.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:21:29AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> I can't even write a primitive shell script in this thing because I don't
> have the inverted apostroph I need to _execute_ unix commands, eg
> 
> cp -p $1 `echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g'`

I'm sure that this won't solve all of your problems, but why not use the
equivalent "$(...)" syntax:

    cp -p $1 $(echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g')

Jason

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