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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Backtick does not work Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 20:02:17 -0400 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: That's not a bash script, that's an 'sh' script. Which is ash on cygwin. Maybe ash doesn't support back-tick? If you change your /bin/sh to /bin/bash it should work. Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote: > From the bash shell the ` (backtick or command execution) work. But when > I spawn a process and execute a shell script which contains the back > ticks, the process just chokes. > > For example, a simple shell script like > #!/bin/sh > .. > .. > myenv=`/bin/env | grep CYGWIN` > .. > .. > > I am able to execute this script properly from the bash shell (as any > user on the system). I am not getting any error at all from the > execution of the script. It just quits. I checked the error code too. It > is 0. > But this same script when executed via a spawned process does not work. > > Any help? > > Girish > > > -- 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/