From: chet AT odin DOT INS DOT CWRU DOT Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: bash env parse broken
6 Sep 1997 19:41:15 -0700
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> on NT4.0sp3 gnu-win32 B18 ... sourcing the following 12 lines into bash:
> 
> HOMEPATH="\"
> export HOMEPATH
> UNAME="NT 4.0"
> export UNAME
> NEW_RELEASE="28/08/97"
> export NEW_RELEASE
> TCL_LIBRARY="C:/gnuwin32/b18/tcl/lib/tcl7.6"
> export TCL_LIBRARY
> PATH=".:/bin:/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin:/gnuwin32/b18/tcl/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:/msdev/bin:/fax/dev:/fax/dev"
> export PATH
> GCC_EXEC_PREFIX="C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\lib\gcc-lib\"
> export GCC_EXEC_PREFIX

You have an unmatched double quote.  The assignment to HOMEPATH
doesn't end until the first double quote after the `UNAME='. 
Backslashes quote double quotes inside double-quoted strings.  I don't
know why bash throws an exception on cygwin32, but on Unix the error
messages are correct.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu
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