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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:47:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with bash command substitution?
To: Matthew Brown <mbrown AT mediadb DOT net>, Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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I've already tried the backticks with the same result. The "export NODE" line
has been working fine in my .bash_profile in the exact same form for probably
18 months, at least. It only began to fail with some of the recent snapshots.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Rick
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--- Matthew Brown <mbrown AT mediadb DOT net> wrote:
> 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
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