X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:00:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim McDaniel cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login In-Reply-To: <20080810213324.GA1792@client-04> Message-ID: References: <20080810213324.GA1792@client-04> 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-Id: 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 Mon, 11 Aug 2008, B'Joe wrote: > This is my bash_login: > > echo Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha > echo ******************NOTE********************** > echo Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry > echo To completely clean Cygwin Portable > echo installation run clean.bat in root directory > echo ******************************************** > > > and this is what I get while login: > > > Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha > ******************NOTE********************** > Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry > To completely clean Cygwin Portable > installation run clean.bat in root directory > Data Mail max_mem.c mbox msmtp.log procmail.log tmp > > Look at the last line, bash seen interpreted my echo command in last > line as ls command, that not suppose to be. It *is* supposed to be. Unlike cmd on Windows, metacharacters like * and ? and [...] are interpreted by bash. *****...* is equivalent to *, and * matches all the files in the current directory. In general, quote your arguments. Single-quote unless you want to do variable interpolation ($abc), in which case double-quote. echo 'Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha' echo '******************NOTE**********************' echo 'Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry' echo 'To completely clean Cygwin Portable' echo 'installation run clean.bat in root directory' echo '********************************************' -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- 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/