Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <009401c226c0$238d3bf0$0400a8c0@Maximus> From: "Bryant Kwon" To: Subject: Linux bash vs. Cygwin bash and $1 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:43:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Hey everyone, I'm having some difficulty with some bash scripts that work fine on my Linux machine, but do not work as expected on my XP machine running Cygwin. First off, I was searching the FAQ's and google.com for differences between Linux bash and Cygwin bash and did not find information I was looking for. Does anyone know of such a reference online? Here is an example; I have the following script named "vcmp": #!/bin/bash echo "***** Listing ONLY differences..." echo $# if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then cvs -n -q update $@ else cvs -n -q update fi echo $0 echo $1 echo $2 echo "***** CVS Compare Complete..." I execute the command "vcmp resync_all" In Linux bash, I get the following values: $# : 1 $0 : ./vcmp $1 : resync_all $2 : (null) In Cygwin, I get the following values: $# : 2 $0 : /usr/cvs/cvs_scripts/vcmp $1 : !* <-- where did this come from? $2 : resync_all I am perplexed as to why I'm getting "!*" for $1 ? There also seems to be a difference on what Linux considers to be the first argument versus what Cygwin considers as the first argument. Perhaps I am doing something incorrectly that I am not aware of... Thanks in advance for any information! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/