X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <454A33A8.9050508@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:06:32 +0100 From: Nicolas Roche User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash CR and backquotes trouble References: <454A2CE4.7030805@adacore.com> <454A3DC0.9040305@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <454A3DC0.9040305@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : > On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote: >> I am using bash version: >> 3.1.17(9) >> >> I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the >> following shell construct: >> >> t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc. >> >> As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs. In previous versions >> bash used to ignore the CR, so t variable was not containing any CR. >> Now this is no more the case and this is causing some troubles > > > Why isn't "t=`gcc --print-multi-lib | d2u`" not a solution here? Well for two reasons: - portability. the same homemade scripts are also used among a large flavors of unixes (AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, Tru64, ....). dos2unix is not installed on all of them... - these constructs are appearing in projects like GCC (I triggered the error while building a mingw GCC). Is there any technical reason why igncr does not handle this case ? What's the exact semantic of this option by the way ? Nicolas -- 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/