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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:49:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: bash expands $1 in strange new way
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote:
> I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under
> cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7.

Your shell script is incorrect, and I don't see how it worked under
1.5. This line:

> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0set EXPLOR=3D'/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe'

does NOT set a variable named EXPLOR.  Instead, it sets the first
positional argument ($1) to the string
"EXPLOR=3D/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe".  Whatever the old value of
$1 was, it's now gone.

To fix, get rid of the "set".  In sh and derivatives, "set" sets the
positional arguments (and optionally flags that affect the shell's
behavior); it does NOT set variables.  Just use the assignment syntax
(var=3Dvalue) by itself for that.

--=20
Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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