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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Subject: Incorrect expression evaluation?
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:29:33 -0800
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Perhaps this is more of a bash problem than a Cygwin problem however 
Cygwin's bash is not acting like bash on Solaris. In Cygwin's bash:

$ x="-l -d"
$ ls $x
ls: invalid option --
Try `ls --help' for more information.

Now on Solaris (also running bash):

$ x="-l -d"
$ ls $x
drwxr-xr-x   4 adefaria other        512 Feb 22 15:13 ./

What gives?




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