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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:59:11 +0100
From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo DOT graziosi AT alice DOT it>
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Subject: Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?
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Il 17/03/2011 19.00, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto:
> I have just updated Cygwin, and now starting a console (Cygwin.bat or
> MinTTY) prints:
>
> -bash: ${p}: ambiguous redirect
>
> and PRINTER variable isn't set.
>
> Reverting to base-files-4.0-4 works just fine and PRINTER is set
> correctly to my default printer.
>
> In 4.0-5 it seems something is broken in /etc/profile.

Perhaps you need this:

- ([[ -e ${p} ]] && read -r PRINTER < ${p}) && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*}
+ ([[ -e ${p} ]] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}") && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*}

> Ciao,
> Angelo.


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