Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID: <03dc01bf7fc5$7a1b7d50$2301a8c0@mediadb.net>
From: "Matthew Brown" <mbrown AT mediadb DOT net>
To: "Rick Rankin" <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>,
        "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
References: <20000225184216 DOT 27967 DOT qmail AT web804 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with bash command substitution?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:21:11 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id OAA15099

Maybe try

export NODE=`hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`

(Note the back-ticks.) I assume that you are wanting to set the variable NODE to the output of the command?

-- Matthew Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Rankin" <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Problem with bash command substitution?


> I discovered that bash is hanging on the following line in my .bash_profile:
> 
> export NODE=$(hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')
> 
> If I type 
> 
> hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
> 
> on the command line, it returns immediately with the results I expect. It only
> seems to hang inside the $() or `` command substitution mechanism. I currently
> have
> 
> CYGWIN=tty notitle glob ntea nontsec
> 
> and I have all text mounts. I'm using the latest snapshot. Has anyone else seen
> this behavior?
> 
> Rick
> --
> Rick Rankin
> rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com
> 
> --
> Want to unsubscribe from this list?
> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> 
> 


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com