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From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: "too many arguments" error in /etc/profile
Message-Id: <20030820185624.7C716E52E@egghead.curl.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400 (EDT)

When starting a login shell using the current release of Cygwin, I get
the error:

  bash: [: too many arguments

I tracked this down to my group name having a space in it ("Domain
Users").  Fix for /etc/profile is below.

 - Pat


Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400
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--- /etc/profile.orig	2003-08-20 14:52:09.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/profile	2003-08-20 14:52:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
 #   a mistake (ie, don't email about it!), comment the
 #   test out below.
 groupID=`id -ng`
-if [ "mkpasswd" == ${groupID} -o "mkgroup" == ${groupID} -o "mkgroup_l_d" == ${groupID} ]; then
+if [ "mkpasswd" == "${groupID}" -o "mkgroup" == "${groupID}" -o "mkgroup_l_d" == "${groupID}" ]; then
   echo "Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly."
   echo "  This typically happens if you are a domain user"
   echo "  (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or"

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