X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 13:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: Cygwin List Subject: RE: sh script works, zsh script doesn't In-Reply-To: <005401c680a8$c92a6e20$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <005401c680a8$c92a6e20$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 On Fri, 26 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 26 May 2006 06:29, Vidiot wrote: > >> But, if anyone has a clue as to why starting of a Windblows program from >> a Z-shell doesn't work, yet from a shell-script, it does, I'd certainly >> appreciate knowing. > > Well, isn't it going to be because sh and zsh are different shells with > different syntax and commands and rules about quoting and escaping? I doubt that's it, because zsh strives to be fully sh compatable (as well as ksh and mostly bash-ish). No, the real problem is likely something else. Vidiot doesn't really state how zsh fails, so I'd really like more details as to what he's seeing. >> echo "#!/bin/sh" > $LOG >> echo "#Starting TSReader at $DATE" >> $LOG >> echo "tsreader -1 -d -i -s tsreader_twinhan1030.dll $MUX \ >> ${DRIVE}:\\${FILENAME}-${DATE}.ts $LENGTH \ >> $FREQ 0 $SYMB $LOFREQ 0" >> $LOG >> chmod 775 $LOG >> $LOG >> >> #tsreader -1 -d -i -s tsreader_twinhan1030.dll $MUX >> ${DRIVE}:\\${FILENAME}-${DATE}.ts $LENGTH $FREQ 0 $SYMB $LOFREQ 0 > > Hmmm. Peculiar. Both bash (which is what you get for sh under cygwin) and > zsh understand the -x option, which prints out each line of script as you > execute it. Try modifying the first line to each of "#!/usr/bin/zsh -x" and > #!/usr/bin/sh -x" and running it that way; it should let you see what actual > args are getting passed to tsreader. > > cheers, > DaveK -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/