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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:41:19 -0500
Subject: RE: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file
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I've diagnosed this problem further. It is an interaction between cygwin an=
d a security package called "Credant Guardian Shield" that my company insta=
lls on all of its laptops. I can't say specifically that it is a cygwin bug=
, but this bad behavior is not present in earlier versions.

As described below, the problem is a command like "echo foo >> foo.txt" cre=
ates a file that starts with a bunch of garbage, and ends with the expected=
 text.

 -- Bill



-----Original Message-----
From: William Lebow [mailto:William DOT Lebow AT phaseforward DOT com]=20
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 2:58 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: blebow AT alum DOT mit DOT edu
Subject: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

I'm a long time cygwin user, but I am having the weirdest problem after ins=
talling on my new Dell laptop running Windows XP professional. I'd be grate=
ful for any advice or hints from this group.

I am doing a simple redirect-append (>>, that is) to create a new file. Whe=
n I do this the new file has twice as many characters as I expect and the f=
irst bunch of characters are seemingly garbage.

This only happens with ">>" and only if I am creating a new file.
Using ">>" to append to a file is no problem.
Using ">" to create a new file is not problem

So far this has not been reproducable on any other PC.

I am using the bash version 3.2.49(23)-release (i686-pc-wygwin) , with the =
1007.1.0.0 cygwin1 dll-- see attached output from cygcheck.

Some examples follow::

#################################
#### Example 1
#### I expect 4 characters (including the terminator); I get 7 #### The fir=
st 3 characters are unwanted
  $ echo abc >> test1.txt
  $ wc test1.txt
  1 1 7 test1.txt
  $ cat test1.txt
  0=91=91abc

$ hexedit test1.txt
00000000   30 B5 A2 61  62 63 0A                                           =
 0..abc.

#################################
#### Example 2
#### I expect 8 characters (including the terminator); I get 15 #### The fi=
rst 7 characters are unwanted
  $ echo abcdefg >> test2.txt
  $ wc test2.txt
   1  1 15 test2.txt
  $ cat test2.txt
  =91=91\zB=91=91abcdefg

hexedit test2.txt
00000000   AD EB 5C 7A  42 B6 C5 61  62 63 64 65  66 67 0A                 =
 ..\zB..abcdefg.


#################################
#### Example 3
#### Use > instead of >> and I get exactly what I should get
  $ echo abc > test3.txt
  $ wc test3.txt
  1 1 4 test3.txt
  $ cat test3.txt
  abc



Many thanks for any help

 -- Bill

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