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: <20000626011101.25286.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:11:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: shell back quote expansion problem To: "Tarr, Stephen F" , "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Tarr, Stephen F" wrote: > I first found this problem with B20, and it still exists in the latest (June > 23) binaries > from sourceware.cygnus.com. It affects both bash and tcsh, and probably > other > shells as well. It appears when running on both 95 and NT 4. > > If I use back-quote expansion on a command from the cygwin package, > everything > works fine. If I use back-quote expansion on a native Win32 command-line > program > (that prints CR-LF at the end of each line of stdout), the shell expansion > fails. -8<- > > Is there some simple workaround or environment setting that I'm missing, or > is this a real bug? > Ummm... I would say it's a Win32 feature. However, have you tried `SET CYGWIN=nobinmode notty'. This should set all non-disk operations to text mode processing which will strip the \r for you. HTH, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com