X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: export arrays from cygwin ksh Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:46:53 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 mwoehlke wrote: > bob wrote: >> I have an hp unix script that runs in ksh and am porting it to PC. It >> uses and exports arrays in hp unix. Does not seem to work in cygwin. >> Can anybody offer suggestions to accomodate? I tried to put an >> example below, but I was labeled a top poster and it would not let me >> do it. > > It does seem like this doesn't work - at least, not how I would expect > it to - on bash (either on Cygwin or on Linux). Oh, ok, it doesn't work in bash: GNU Bash-3.0 ... BUGS ... Array variables may not (yet) be exported. (Hmm... bugs: "it's too big and slow"?) -- Matthew Interix, Sphinterix. Cygwin apps don't crash. :-) -- 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/