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: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:58:52 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Possible bash incompatibility Message-ID: <20050418155852.GF11016@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Arash Partow wrote: >>Could someone tell me why the piece of bash script below is being >>rejected as being erroneous on cygwin but works fine on other bash's >>ie: linux and openbsd? > >I would imagine because the output of "uname -s" doesn't contain >"CYGWIN" on either Linux or OpenBSD, so "grep -c" outputs a 0. But >even on Cygwin this works (as Brian already confirmed). > >>my current version of bash is update (2.05b). >> >>#!/bin/bash >> >>if [ `uname -s | grep -c 'CYGWIN'` -eq "1" ]; then > >FWIW, a better test would be > >if uname -s | grep -q 'CYGWIN'; then ... How about if [[ $(uname -s) == CYGWIN* ]]; then cgf -- 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/