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From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
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Subject:	\r in variables and test
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Hi,

In a ./configure script, I call a test program (native python, actually)
that outputs "True\r\n" and I put this result in variable foo. The
problem is that [ "$foo" = True ] doesn't return true because foo
actually contains True\r, not True.

Is there a nice way around this?

Samuel

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