X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <455311BF.1020606@oersted.dtu.dk> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:32:15 +0100 From: Borislav Tomov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050706090306080204010602" X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam --------------050706090306080204010602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am observing that string concatenation in bash 3.2.3(5), as well as in 3.1.17 (not exactly sure, the one that comes with the distribution), overwrites the first string variable during concatenation: Example code: string1="one" string2="two" echo $string1 echo "$string1+" echo "$string1+$string2" echo "The number 2: $string2" echo "This is $string1 + $string2" Example results: one +ne +two The number 2: two + twos one ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adding an if-fi construction in the bash script leads to an error: Example: if $x==5; then echo "Blah1" else echo "Blah2" fi Example result: for line XX which is the last +1 line of the script, the following message is displayed script_path: line XX: syntax error: unexpected end of file Cheers, Borislav --------------050706090306080204010602 Content-Type: text/plain; name="cygcheck.out" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="cygcheck.out" Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Nov 09 12:06:27 2006 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: E:\EDK\cygwin\usr\local\bin E:\EDK\cygwin\bin E:\EDK\cygwin\bin e:\EDK\bin\nt c:\WINNT\system32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL e:\Xilinx\bin\nt d:\mentorgraphics\2004\common\win32\bin d:\mentorgraphics\2004\common\win32\lib c:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell Output from E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 400(bt) GID: 401(mkpasswd) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 401(mkpasswd) Output from E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 400(bt) GID: 401(mkpasswd) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 401(mkpasswd) SysDir: C:\WINNT\system32 WinDir: C:\WINNT USER = 'bt' PWD = '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/bt' HOME = '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/bt' MAKE_MODE = 'unix' HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\bt' APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt\Application Data' SDD_PLATFORM = 'win32' SDD_LOCAL = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt\Application Data\mgc\2004' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4, GenuineIntel' WINDIR = 'C:\WINNT' SDD_WG = 'wg' OLDPWD = '/usr/bin' WDIR = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt\My Documents\epd_data;d:\mentorgraphics\2004\standard' USERDOMAIN = 'BTPC' OS = 'Windows_NT' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' OS2LIBPATH = 'C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;' EPD_STARTBAT = 'start /b /wait' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/WINNT/Temp' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' XILINX_EDK = 'E:\EDK' EPD_WV = 'wv' USERNAME = 'bt' SDD_VERSION = '2004' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '15' EPD_START = 'start' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' GMAXLOC = 'H:\gmax\' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt' MGLS_LICENSE_SEARCH = '1' PS1 = '\[\033]0;\w\007 \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ ' LOGONSERVER = '\\BTPC' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' !C: = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt\Desktop' SHLVL = '1' EPD_LOCAL = 'C:\Documents and Settings\bt\Application Data\mgc\2004' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' SDD_HOME = 'd:\mentorgraphics\2004' HOMEDRIVE = 'C:' PROMPT = '$P$G' COMSPEC = 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' TMP = '/cygdrive/c/WINNT/Temp' SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\WINNT' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0204' MGLS_LICENSE_FILE = '1717 AT 192 DOT 38 DOT 72 DOT 24,1717 AT 192 DOT 38 DOT 72 DOT 199,1717 AT 192 DOT 38 DOT 72 DOT 207' EPD_ROOT = 'd:\mentorgraphics\2004' SDD_COMMON_BIN = 'd:\mentorgraphics\2004\common\win32\bin' EPD_VLPERL_BIN = 'd:\mentorgraphics\2004\common\win32\perl\bin\mswin32-x86' !E: = 'E:\EDK\cygwin\bin' PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files' LMC_HOME = 'e:\Xilinx\smartmodel\nt\installed_nt' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '1' EPD_ARCH = 'win32' XILINX = 'e:\Xilinx' COMPUTERNAME = 'BTPC' _ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck' POSIXLY_CORRECT = '1' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x00000022 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = '/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x00000022 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = 'E:\EDK\cygwin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = 'E:\EDK\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = 'E:\EDK\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x0000000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 5992Mb 62% CP CS UN PA FC Windows d: hd FAT32 1988Mb 33% CP UN COMMON e: hd NTFS 10001Mb 65% CP CS UN PA FC CAE f: hd NTFS 10001Mb 86% CP CS UN PA FC PROJECTS g: hd NTFS 10001Mb 64% CP CS UN PA FC INSTALL h: hd NTFS 13829Mb 66% CP CS UN PA FC MEDIA i: cd N/A N/A . /cygdrive user binmode,cygdrive E:\EDK\cygwin / system binmode E:\EDK\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode E:\EDK\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive Found: E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: E:\EDK\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Not Found: cpp (good!) 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Cygwin Package Information Last downloaded files to: D:\cygwin_install Last downloaded files from: ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/software/windows/cygwin32 Package Version _update-info-dir 00444-1 alternatives 1.3.29a-1 ash 20040127-3 base-files 3.7-1 base-passwd 2.2-1 bash 3.1-9 bzip2 1.0.3-1 coreutils 5.97-1 crypt 1.1-1 cygutils 1.3.0-1 cygwin 1.5.21-2 cygwin-doc 1.4-4 diffutils 2.8.7-1 editrights 1.01-1 findutils 4.3.0-2 gawk 3.1.5-4 gdbm 1.8.3-7 grep 2.5.1a-2 groff 1.18.1-2 gzip 1.3.5-2 less 381-1 libbz2_1 1.0.3-1 libcharset1 1.11-1 libgcrypt 1.2.1-1 libgdbm 1.8.0-5 libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-7 libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 libgdbm4 1.8.3-7 libgpg-error 1.1-1 libiconv 1.11-1 libiconv2 1.11-1 libintl 0.10.38-3 libintl1 0.10.40-1 libintl2 0.12.1-3 libintl3 0.14.5-1 libintl8 0.15-1 libncurses5 5.2-1 libncurses6 5.2-8 libncurses7 5.3-4 libncurses8 5.5-2 libpcre0 6.6-1 libpopt0 1.6.4-4 libreadline4 4.1-2 libreadline5 4.3-5 libreadline6 5.1-5 libxml2 2.6.26-1 libxslt 1.1.17-1 login 1.9-7 man 1.5p-1 mktemp 1.5-3 ncurses 5.5-2 run 1.1.10-1 sed 4.1.5-2 tar 1.16-1 termcap 20050421-1 terminfo 5.5_20060323-1 texinfo 4.8-3 which 1.7-1 zlib 1.2.3-2 Use -h to see help about each section --------------050706090306080204010602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- 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/ --------------050706090306080204010602--