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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: "Maloney, Michael" <mmaloney AT rsasecurity DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: echo $?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:32:13 +0000
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> I am trying to get my current expect scripts to run with the latest
> cygwin but am having problems with the cmd-prompt after issuing the
> command above. After the "echo $?", the expected prompt is returned but
> with white space before it. I've never seen this before on Windows or
> Unix.
> 

What is your $PS1?  And what shell (and version) are you running?  There
is a known bug in bash-3.0-7 with certain prompts displaying incorrectly,
so if expect is postprocessing a screen-capture, I could see the prompt
display bug being the cause of your concern.  Usually, when
post-processing shell output, the shell was not run in interactive mode,
so that prompts are not part of the shell output; maybe more
information about how you are running expect and why you expect
(pardon the pun) to see the prompt as part of the output would also
be helpful in diagnosing the problem.

Hint - following these directions will help us know more about your
setup, to see if anything obvious jumps out with your installed
versions.  As it is, your uname output mentions cygwin-1.5.17, although
1.5.18 is the latest, so you probably have several out-of-date packages.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer




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