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Re: bash builtin "test" kills bash on Win 2003 Server R2 x64 (some hardware)


tmcd wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
But leaving that aside for the moment, perhaps you have a a
corrupted '/bin/[.exe'.  Yes, it's just a WAG that really shouldn't
be an issue but given your unique environment, maybe it's worth
checking.

I don't have the original note handy, but I thought it was of the form if [ ... ] As the subject line noted, [ is a shell builtin in bash (and I think even in sh of recent decades), so I don't see how it could be affected by corruption of anything other than /bin/bash.exe.

If the original code was
    if /bin/test ...
or
    if /bin/[ ... ]
then it would be likelier.


No argument here. I also doubt that it has anything to do with [.exe but since the behavior reported doesn't make allot of sense, I thought of it as a pathological case that's easy to check. I still suspect that it has more to do with the environment than with bash/Cygwin.

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