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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:03:58 -0400
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: bash expansion question
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At 10:56 AM 4/13/00, Jason Dufair wrote:
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" wrote:
> > 
> > At 09:28 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Hello -
> > >
> > >I have cygwin b20 running on WinNT SP6
> > >
> > >at the command line I get the following:
> > >
> > >$ foo=bar/baz
> > >$ echo ${foo%%/*}
> > >foo
> > >
> > >However, if I have the following in a script:
> > >
> > >foo=bar/baz
> > >echo ${foo%%/*}
> > >
> > >and then run it, I get
> > >$ test.sh
> > >ba
> > >
> > >It seems to be dropping one too many characters.  It seems I've either
> > >found an expansion bug or I'm misunderstanding something.  Testing this
> > >on my linux box (bash 1.14.7), it works as expected.  Can someone
> > >clarify this for me?  Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > 
> > Sounds like a text/binary thing to me.  Try setting adding "binmode" to
> > your CYGWIN environment variable and restarting bash...
>
>Thanks for the suggestion, Larry.  I tried it and it seems to have had
>no effect.  Can anyone duplicate this by chance?


No, I can't.  Are you sure you're running the same shell in both cases 
(i.e. is sh = bash and is bash what you're running)?


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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