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Re: bug with cat and backticks? (was: bug with built-in ...)
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Norton Allen <allen at huarp dot harvard dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:55:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: bug with cat and backticks? (was: bug with built-in ...)
- References: <45BEB4C5.8030508@huarp.harvard.edu>
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According to Norton Allen on 1/29/2007 8:00 PM:
>>>
>>> PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
>>
>> No, this is a text mount:
That's the answer. You are creating PIDFILE with \r\n line endings, but
cat always reads in binary mode.
Try PID=`cat $PIDFILE | d2u` instead. Or try using the igncr shell option.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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