From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Challenge: a VERY strange problem with command substitution in bash
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 23:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59655da7.c3abca0a.1036d.610b@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93b0a4e1-78eb-798e-9946-cd38ab288cce@wagner.is>
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:12:14, =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Wagner?= wrote:
> 2. Windows 10, Version 1703, Build 15063.413 on a Dell 64bit platform,
> latest 64bit Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-10.0, 2.8.1(0.312/5/3) 2017-07-03 14:11
> x86_64 Cygwin) /bin/bash
>
> $ value=3D"$( date | cat )"; echo "$? <$value>"
> 127 <>
For what it is worth, I cannot repro this with Windows 7:
$ value="$( date | cat )"; echo "$? <$value>"
0 <Tue, Jul 11, 2017 6:16:21 PM>
Also, your example is poor. As you well know, "cat" in this case should be a
noop:
$ date | cat
Tue, Jul 11, 2017 6:20:53 PM
Perhaps you can provide a sane example that fails? Something like:
$ date | sed s/M/Z/
Tue, Jul 11, 2017 6:21:46 PZ
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-11 19:12 Jürgen Wagner
2017-07-11 19:16 ` Jürgen Wagner
2017-07-11 20:40 ` Jürgen Wagner
2017-07-11 23:22 ` Steven Penny [this message]
2017-07-11 23:24 ` Richard Beels via cygwin
[not found] ` <59655e58.d532240a.ae3d8.4253SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com>
2017-07-12 6:08 ` Wouter van Doorn
[not found] ` <20170711232506.02CE91C3666@atlantis.udag.de>
2017-07-28 18:03 ` Jürgen Wagner
2017-12-04 13:01 Erik Haukjær Andersen
2017-12-04 13:22 ` David Macek
2017-12-04 21:41 ` Brian Inglis
2017-12-04 20:20 ` Andrey Repin
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