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From: "Brian Smith" <Brian.Smith@PicoDyne.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: bash quoting bug?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004801be5b62$924fab90$87f02299@fred> (raw)
In-Reply-To: < 19990218102733.B6936@io.txc.com >

Interesting,

I'm using BASH on 20.1, and perl version 5.004_04 built for cygwin32,
and the results I got were:
a b


Must be something else,

Brian
-        Brian S. Smith
-     PicoDyne Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Igor Schein
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:28 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: bash quoting bug?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is with default bash and ActivePerl:
> 
> $ perl -e 'printf "a b\n";'
> Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
> 
> The above works fine with tcsh ( as well as on any other OS I 
> tried it ).  
> So I guess it must be bash bug.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Igor
> 
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From: "Brian Smith" <Brian.Smith@PicoDyne.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: bash quoting bug?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004801be5b62$924fab90$87f02299@fred> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990228230200.fphP8GaIJGqIbWJXn-jUdKhycy47gxOXgJqcxGFX4SA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990218102733.B6936@io.txc.com>

Interesting,

I'm using BASH on 20.1, and perl version 5.004_04 built for cygwin32,
and the results I got were:
a b


Must be something else,

Brian
-        Brian S. Smith
-     PicoDyne Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Igor Schein
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:28 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: bash quoting bug?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is with default bash and ActivePerl:
> 
> $ perl -e 'printf "a b\n";'
> Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
> 
> The above works fine with tcsh ( as well as on any other OS I 
> tried it ).  
> So I guess it must be bash bug.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Igor
> 
> --
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> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-02-18  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-18  7:27 Igor Schein
     [not found] ` < 19990218102733.B6936@io.txc.com >
1999-02-18  9:17   ` Brian Smith [this message]
1999-02-28 23:02     ` Brian Smith
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Igor Schein
1999-02-19 19:44 Frederick, Ralph
1999-02-28 23:02 ` Frederick, Ralph

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