Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:07:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: Michael A Chase Subject: Re: readline behaves differently from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5 To: "Zhou, Zhongyu" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB147817B4@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com> In-Reply-To: <3F06C9859CA7D31194ED0000D1ECC4AB147817B4@pkcexv007.sprintspectrum.com> Reply-To: Michael A Chase Message-Id: On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:47 -0500 "Zhou, Zhongyu" wrote: > Hi, > I have just upgraded my cygwin (bash) from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5, and it broke > one of our development scripts. Basically what it did was, to drop the > backslash from the input. My readline version is 4.2a-1. > e.g., > test.sh file > ========= > contains: > cat junk.txt | while read line > do > if [ $line = "This\is\a\test" ] ; then Note that (\) has special meaning to the shell. Try using (') instead of (") or doubling the \s to see if either makes a difference. Considering how shell escaping in (") works, I don't see how this ever worked. > echo `cat junk.txt` > else > echo "This is bad" > fi > done > > junk.txt file > ============== > contains: > This\is\a\test > > I got an output This is bad. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/