Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38F5E02C.B11CF6B1@deadbeets.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:56:44 -0500 From: Jason Dufair Reply-To: jase AT deadbeets DOT com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: bash expansion question References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 20000412235451 DOT 00939d30 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" wrote: > > At 09:28 PM 4/12/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Hello - > > > >I have cygwin b20 running on WinNT SP6 > > > >at the command line I get the following: > > > >$ foo=bar/baz > >$ echo ${foo%%/*} > >foo > > > >However, if I have the following in a script: > > > >foo=bar/baz > >echo ${foo%%/*} > > > >and then run it, I get > >$ test.sh > >ba > > > >It seems to be dropping one too many characters. It seems I've either > >found an expansion bug or I'm misunderstanding something. Testing this > >on my linux box (bash 1.14.7), it works as expected. Can someone > >clarify this for me? Thanks a lot. > > > > Sounds like a text/binary thing to me. Try setting adding "binmode" to > your CYGWIN environment variable and restarting bash... Thanks for the suggestion, Larry. I tried it and it seems to have had no effect. Can anyone duplicate this by chance? -- Jason Dufair - jase AT deadbeets DOT com - PGP key on keyservers "So many ways to understand One for every woman and man Been that way since the world began" - Bruce Cockburn -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com