From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cmp (or echo) bug?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151227182338.71448A10.helmut.karlowski@ish.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20151226T134911-504@post.gmane.org>
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> Hi,
>
> David Balažic <xerces9 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In Cygwin terminal (bash) I typed:
> >
> > cmp <(echo echo1) <(echo echo2)
>
> I suspect its a bash bug since it works fine with zsh (tested 64bit only).
zsh uses temp-files for process-substitution, while bash seems to use
pipes which are not very good seekable. That might cause the
difference. It only works in zsh and no other shell because of that.
Diff instead of cmp works also in bash btw.
-Helmut
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-27 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-25 21:32 David Balažic
2015-12-26 6:42 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-12-26 12:49 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-12-27 17:23 ` Helmut Karlowski [this message]
2015-12-28 17:08 ` David Balažic
2015-12-28 18:20 ` Michael Enright
2015-12-28 20:58 ` David Balažic
2015-12-29 4:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-12-29 16:43 ` Houder
2016-01-03 17:21 ` David Balažic
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