X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:15:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5? Message-ID: <20110317191519.GB29988@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D824C56 DOT 9030905 AT alice DOT it> <4D8259FF DOT 4020802 AT alice DOT it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D8259FF.4020802@alice.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:59:11PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >Il 17/03/2011 19.00, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: >> I have just updated Cygwin, and now starting a console (Cygwin.bat or >> MinTTY) prints: >> >> -bash: ${p}: ambiguous redirect >> >> and PRINTER variable isn't set. >> >> Reverting to base-files-4.0-4 works just fine and PRINTER is set >> correctly to my default printer. >> >> In 4.0-5 it seems something is broken in /etc/profile. > >Perhaps you need this: > >- ([[ -e ${p} ]] && read -r PRINTER < ${p}) && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*} >+ ([[ -e ${p} ]] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}") && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*} Or even, + ([[ -e "${p}" ]] && read -r PRINTER < "${p}") && PRINTER=${PRINTER%%,*} -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple