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Subject: Re: \r in variables and test
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Samuel Thibault wrote:

> In a ./configure script, I call a test program (native python, actually)
> that outputs "True\r\n" and I put this result in variable foo. The
> problem is that [ "$foo" = True ] doesn't return true because foo
> actually contains True\r, not True.

$foo=$(python command | d2u)

Brian

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