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RE: bash CR and backquotes trouble
- From: "Wilks, Dan" <Dan_Wilks at intuit dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:20:40 -0800
- Subject: RE: bash CR and backquotes trouble
Nicolas Roche wrote:
> t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc.
>
> As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs. In previous versions
> bash used to ignore the CR, so t variable was not containing any CR.
> Now this is no more the case and this is causing some troubles
Looking back to a comment Eric Blake made on 10/23
> igncr only ignores \r in the input file, not in `` or $() command
> substitution. But IFS will cover that. Hmm, maybe I should take a
closer
> look at command substitution to see if I can make igncr affect that as
> well. I'll try and get that in bash-3.2-4
Then again on 10/24
> A new release of bash, 3.2-4, is now available for experimental use,
> replacing 3.2-3. Version 3.1-9 remains as the current version for now.
> ...
> 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how
bash
> will treat \r during variable expansion.
So you could give the new experimental version of Bash a try.
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