X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <454A3BB4.3060808@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:40:52 +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> <454A33A8.9050508@adacore.com> <454A47CD.50009@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <454A47CD.50009@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 : > Nicolas Roche wrote: >> 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... > > > OK. So 'tr' is a better choice then. > What I want to avoid.... will generates a lot of changes that can't be automated :-( > > Dan has addressed this in his response so I won't repeat it. Will try Dan solution with the new version of bash. As I said in my previous mail, if you are interesting in the results I will send them. 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/