Re: RE: Bug with backticks behaviour in mSYS?

The "bash" command you are using is not part of MSYS, so it is probably 
Cygwin bash or something.

Luke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Cave-Ayland" <m.cave-ayland-IbN7e4zYhAu9FHfhHBbuYA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mingw-msys-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 3:54 AM
Subject: [Mingw-msys] 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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