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short changing by ash
- To: gnu-win32 <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: short changing by ash
- From: Don Sharp <Don.Sharp@dddandr.octacon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:23:07 +0000
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You may be interested in the following differences in behaviour
between bash and (a)sh. ash comes up with one character less.
Cheers
Don Sharp
bash-2.02$ ash
$ v=a123/b123.mak
$ a=${v%%/*}
$ echo $a
a12
$ exit
bash-2.02$ v=a123/b123.mak
bash-2.02$ a=${v%%/*}
bash-2.02$ echo $a
a123
bash-2.02$
bash-2.02$ cygcheck -s
Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Feb 11 14:38:20 1999
WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 3
Path: /bin
/usr/bin
//c/winnt/system32
//c/winnt
//i/msdev/bin
//c/bin
//c/dos
//c
SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT
HOME = `//D/don'
MAKE_MODE = `UNIX'
PWD = `/tmp'
Use `-r' to scan registry
a:\ fd N/A N/A
c:\ hd FAT 509Mb 58% CP UN MSDOS622_NT
d:\ hd FAT 509Mb 33% CP UN USERFILES
e:\ hd FAT 125Mb 96% CP UN WINDOWSWAPS
f:\ hd FAT 509Mb 5% CP UN WIN_APPLICS
g:\ hd FAT 509Mb 13% CP UN OPENPRODUCT
h:\ hd FAT 509Mb 79% CP UN OPENWORK
i:\ hd FAT 509Mb 43% CP UN MS_APPLICS
j:\ hd NTFS 509Mb 13% CP CS UN PA FC NT_APPLICS
k:\ hd NTFS 509Mb 5% CP CS UN PA FC NT_SYSTEMS
l:\ fd FAT 95Mb 40% CP UN MIS_002
m:\ cd N/A N/A
g: / native text=binary
Found: g:\bin\bash.exe
Found: \bin\bash.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\cat.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: g:\usr\bin\find.exe
Found: c:\dos\find.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\gcc.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\gdb.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\ld.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\ls.exe
Found: g:\usr\bin\make.exe
Found: g:\bin\sh.exe
Found: \bin\sh.exe
728k 1998/12/19 g:\bin\cygwin1.dll
371k 1998/12/01 g:\usr\bin\cygtcl80.dll
5k 1998/12/01 g:\usr\bin\cygtclpip80.dll
10k 1998/12/01 g:\usr\bin\cygtclreg80.dll
600k 1998/12/01 g:\usr\bin\cygtk80.dll
446k 1998/12/03 g:\usr\bin\cygwinb201.dll
728k 1998/12/19 \bin\cygwin1.dll
Use -h to see help about each section
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