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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:38:25 -0500
From: Jason Dufair <jase AT deadbeets DOT com>
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Hmm.  My last note must not have made it to the whole list.  Indeed, my
/bin/sh was indeed ash.  I replaced it with a symlink to bash and all is
well!  I would still think this would be odd for ash, but I know nothing
about ash, so maybe it's normal or not defined.

Thanks all for help and suggestions.

Don Sharp wrote:
> 
> I remember "sh" giving this trouble (short selection) when it is "ash".
> Are you sure "sh" == "bash" ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Don
> 
> Jason Dufair wrote:
> >
> > "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?
> >
> > --
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