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From: Danilo Turina <danilo DOT turina AT alcatel DOT it>
Subject: Re: bash: simple command problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:40:23 +0200
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This is not specifically related to Cygwin.

Anyway, your command does not work because the variables (variableA and 
nextVariable) are expanded by Bash before the line is executed (as always).

In fact, something like this would work:

variableA=valA nextVariable=next eval 'echo $variableA $nextVariable'

Ciao,

		Danilo

cygwin DOT 20 DOT job AT spamgourmet DOT com wrote:

> Hi Folks
> 
> I hove the problem to set variable in front of executing a command. The
> bash manpage says that a simple command is a set of variable assignment
> followed by the command
> 
> So I think that
> 
> variableA=valA nextVariable=next echo $variableA $nextVariable
> should echo valA next but when I try this in the bash the echo is empty
> 
> Did I understand something wrong or is it a bug?
> 
> Regards 
> 
>     Franz
> 
> 


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