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: <427F5C1C.6050202@byu.net> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 06:48:28 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john@morrison.mine.nu CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: base-files patch (atn: Eric Blake) References: <032520051926.2104.424465D60002AFD30000083822058861720A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <1492.192.168.0.12.1115538762.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <1492.192.168.0.12.1115538762.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to John Morrison on 5/8/2005 1:52 AM: > On Fri, March 25, 2005 8:26 pm, Eric Blake said: > >>True enough. And that points out another bug - echo "$0" may fail if $0 >>starts with -, it should be echo -- "$0". Isn't portable shell >>programming fun? > > Sorry that this has taken so long, but I'm just getting around to adding > all the fixes emailed wrt /etc/profile. I tried the above, and it broke > so I checked the man pages, Serves me right for thinking that echo was standard when I typed my original message, rather than me actually testing at the command line. Yes indeed, POSIX requires that echo must interpret -- as a string operand, rather than the standard interpretation of being an argument separator. > so, I'm afraid that echo -- "${0}" won't work. > This will work instead: case `printf %s "$0" | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'` in bash | -bash | */bash ) [..] - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCf1wc84KuGfSFAYARAg5qAJ9M9WVxgQhBUc9edDMtZZirq8/JIACfbw2t KQ0laPFFkGEIWyjP3xHaJB8= =r+l4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/