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From: "Steven Weiss" <sweiss AT iafrica DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3 scripting problem (read function
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:33:29 +0200
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I've echo $proj and get
/temp

so I'm not sure what the problem is. Possibly a hidden control-m. What next?

Regards
Steven


> Hi
>
> I've got a problem with the read function in bash 2.05a-3.
>
> Example
> -------------
>
> bash$
> bash$ read proj
> /temp
> bash$ cd $proj
> : No such file or directory
> bash$ cd /temp
> bash$ pwd
> /temp
> bash$ test -d $proj
> bash$ echo $?
> 1
> bash$ test -d /temp
> bash$ echo $?
> 0
> bash$
> ---------------------------------------
> When testing or trying to change directories using $proj it fails. When
> using the literal values it passes. It appears that the read function does
> not work properly. May be I'm doing something stupid or missing something
> completely. I have looked through the FAQs and mail list archives but
cannot
> find anything similar.

Probably the windows CR/LF creeping in again.
I'll bet proj contains /temp<CR>

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