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From:	"Myers, Paul R (Research)" <myers AT crd DOT ge DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: TCSH 6.13 shell script can't re-write to a file
Date:	Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:19:40 -0400

Thanks Neal, 

I had assumed the issue was with the rm statement, and was experimenting
there.

Some experimentation shows the problem is with the first echo statement.
If I replace the first echo statement with /bin/echo or even printf
the second echo statement works fine. 

So, as you said, the TCSH echo statement has the strange behavior.
I guess it doesn't "release" the file, or close a pipe or something.

Thanks again, this is a good workaround.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: neal somos [mailto:nsomos AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:15 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TCSH 6.13 shell script can't re-write to a file


If you use /bin/echo the problem goes away.

I can reproduce the problem with tcsh and
when using /bin/echo instead of the builtin, 
I get the expected behavior.

Apparently the built-in echo functions differently.

neal


		
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