From: chet AT odin DOT INS DOT CWRU DOT Edu (Chet Ramey) Subject: Re: RE: problems linking formats. 27 Mar 1997 04:16:41 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9703261719.AA23765.SM.cygnus.gnu-win32@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: chet AT po DOT cwru DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Original-To: davidsan AT verity DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Message from davidsan@verity.com of Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:58:42 -0800 (id <01BC38F2.5C260D50@DAVIDSANL>) Read-Receipt-To: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You know, you should really insert newlines into your mail messages. > i wanted to chime in here with a note about the particular bash [bug|misfeature] that i'm seeing, under both win95 and nt40: on the bash that i have on netcom (sorry, can't check the version # of it right now), the following: > > % echo foo > out > % echo bar >> out > % export TESTVAR=`cat out` > > sets TESTVAR to simply "foo". on b17.1, i'm getting > > "foo > bar" > > instead. The latter value is correct. Since you don't have the version of bash that's running on netcom, it's possible that this was a bug fixed in a more current version of bash. Bash versions 1.14.6 and 1.14.7 get this right. >oh, and one other thing, which i'm >sure must be a FAQ, but again, i can't find the answer to--how do i >stop bash from requiring a /tmp dir for the temp files produced by >"cat <