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From: richardson AT evansville DOT edu
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 17:57:21 GMT
Message-ID: <20010302.17572189@ar63pc.cecs.evansville.edu>
Subject: Re: how2 read value of DOS env var containing a "." ?
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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It's kind of obvious that it was programmed not too, isn't it?
I was just kind of wondering out loud about why a dot was not
allowed as a legal character in a variable name by the bash
designers.

I don't think it is a good idea to modify bash so that you
can write scripts that aren't compatible with original bash.
A workaround is called for here.  That's what I suggested.

Tony Richardson

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 3/2/2001, 11:46:33 AM, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote 
regarding Re: how2 read value of DOS env var containing a "." ?:


> richardson AT evansville DOT edu wrote:
> >
> > Not pretty, but works:
> >
> > bashvar=$(set | grep DOS.VAR | cut -d= -f2)
> >
> > (I didn't know that bash vars couldn't have "."s in their
> > names. I wonder why not?)
> >

> Uhm, just because it was programmed not too?  Use the source, Luke.
> (tm)  It is very easily modifiable.

> Earnie.

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