X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_PD,TW_YG,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4D5C318F.6030604@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:20:31 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: echo $(cygcheck...) oddity References: <4D5C127D.40401@member.fsf.org> <4D5C13D1.8010105@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig338D679F562305E25096C54E" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig338D679F562305E25096C54E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/16/2011 01:06 PM, RISINGP1@nationwide.com wrote: > I suspected a problem with \r, so I tried it. However, I am using pdksh,= =20 > and ended up with something that really was unexpected... No, that's also expected. pdksh echo obeys POSIX by default. Bash echo does not. Echo and backslash is a non-portable combination (POSIX itself recommends using printf if you suspect that you might be printing a backslash, because it requires the pdksh behavior but so many people have come to expect the bash behavior). Since cygcheck output includes backslashes, you should not expect any sensible behavior when trying to echo it, and should instead use printf. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig338D679F562305E25096C54E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNXDGPAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nqh+AH/RQypWqebmb1BQneQaM7I1S1 Jp+mlNbiqnA4K/MRYYmoZ2WWj7ub+tPGTJZfi3Fsx9CPdxKl6AFpaUcqX8w4+aQF 0T9AY3L4wXc803ikgTqPVdr9+ASEbRoYT2BgB9vIIX23UvCD/pfAk/D+ixH9vXNm 2jALsYNwI6ZQ5XBsZ1jaiDGF+zqVakZMbjG2pvDtWhABJZycfYmGz576OwMdocjM 4KWsw/LMkJrn1p9NIv+RgpIcsN23LtMOn38Fm3Mmv8ZJB3/FTlA6E0dCH4wUFlm/ c3XmTwkf4/nsa8jWboTpPMMZ7M91XCWzjua6JB1Ctw8VkrBYSO0y/N4SAwiEQ5k= =xmHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig338D679F562305E25096C54E--