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From: | ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake) |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: base-files patch |
Date: | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:34:26 +0000 |
Message-Id: | <032520051834.18021.424459B2000099DD0000466522058891160A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> |
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> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Blake wrote (snipped): > > > Most shells understand "`""`" (particularly, all official shells on > Cygwin, which is what's important). True enough, and I concede that POSIX requires it to work. > In fact, in this particular case, > it's probably better to use "``" instead of `""`, IMO. No, "`echo $0|tr ...`" does the wrong thing if $0 is "two spaces/sh" (it passes just one space to tr, instead of two), while `echo "$0"|tr ...` works correctly. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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