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 Message-ID: <419B8DAC.60106@x-ray.at> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:43:08 +0100 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geoffrey KRETZ CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: long command executed via a variable fails References: <419B70A9.6020203@4js.com> <419B769E.4060905@x-ray.at> <419B89EE.2080208@4js.com> In-Reply-To: <419B89EE.2080208@4js.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Geoffrey KRETZ schrieb: > Reini Urban wrote: >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC43 >> cygwin's /bin/sh is ash, on most other platforms it is /bin/bash. >> >> If you want it to behave it exactly like on other platforms, and you use >> bash specific constructs, use the /bin/bash shebang. >> > If I specified "#! /bin/bash" at the first line of my shell script, is > it enough to make Cygwin understand that I want to use bash instead of > ash ?? sure. you'd need to do that on every platform if you use bash specifics. it is considered good style. but as igor already posted, your problem is only marginally better on bash. you should really use exact quoting: test 'eval "$cmd"' or even better use Igor suggestions with testing against the return value. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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/