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According to Howard Mak on 10/23/2006 10:35 AM:
>> I can't seem to get the latest version of bash to work with the command
>> 	PROGRAM `cat file_containing_arguments.txt`
>> when the file is created on a textmode mount.  Seems like carriage returns are not processed correctly.

Actually, they are being processed exactly as they would be on Linux.

>>
>> -	I tried using different settings for the shell option igncr, but it didn't seem to help

igncr only ignores \r in the input file, not in `` or $() command
substitution.  But IFS will cover that.  Hmm, maybe I should take a closer
look at command substitution to see if I can make igncr affect that as
well.  I'll try and get that in bash-3.2-4.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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