RE: Bug with backticks behaviour in mSYS?

Hi everyone,

Another update on this: it appears to a be a bug in the MingW build of
sh.exe, and seems to happen if the last character from the backticked
command is a newline (\n) and there are additional characters after the echo
command and the enclosing quotes. However, it does appear that the MingW
version of bash doesn't have this bug so I guess this will have to be the
short term work-around. Here are the outputs from MingW 4.1.0 and FC4 for
the same test given in the previous email using both sh and bash:


FC4
---

[mca198@p15195424 test]$ sh -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
00000000  74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20  61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  |this is a test
s|
00000010  74 72 69 6e 67 20 2d 6c  70 71 0a                 |tring -lpq.|
0000001b
[mca198@p15195424 test]$ bash -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
00000000  74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20  61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  |this is a test
s|
00000010  74 72 69 6e 67 20 2d 6c  70 71 0a                 |tring -lpq.|
0000001b


MingW/MSYS
----------

mca@IBM-SPARKS ~
$ sh -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
00000000: 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  this is a test s
00000010: 74 72 69 6E 67 01 20 2D 6C 70 71 0A              tring. -lpq.

mca@IBM-SPARKS ~
$ bash -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
00000000: 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  this is a test s
00000010: 74 72 69 6E 67 20 2D 6C 70 71 0A                 tring -lpq.


Where is the best place to report this bug so that it can get resolved for
future releases?


Many thanks,

Mark.

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