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: <1492.192.168.0.12.1115538762.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <032520051926.2104.424465D60002AFD30000083822058861720A050E040D0C079D0 A@comcast.net> References: <032520051926 DOT 2104 DOT 424465D60002AFD30000083822058861720A050E040D0C079D0A AT comcast DOT net> Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 08:52:42 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: base-files patch (atn: Eric Blake) From: "John Morrison" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Fri, March 25, 2005 8:26 pm, Eric Blake said: > True enough. And that points out another bug - echo "$0" may fail if $0 > starts with -, it should be echo -- "$0". Isn't portable shell > programming fun? Sorry that this has taken so long, but I'm just getting around to adding all the fixes emailed wrt /etc/profile. I tried the above, and it broke so I checked the man pages, `echo' writes each given STRING to standard output, with a space between each and a newline after the last one. Synopsis: echo [OPTION]... [STRING]... The program accepts the following options. Also see *Note Common options::. Options must precede operands, and the normally-special argument `--' has no special meaning and is treated like any other STRING. so, I'm afraid that echo -- "${0}" won't work. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/