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Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login


On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, B'Joe <eco94h@gmail.com> wrote:
This is my bash_login:

echo Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha
echo ******************NOTE**********************
echo Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry
echo To completely clean Cygwin Portable
echo installation run clean.bat in root directory
echo ********************************************


and this is what I get while login:



Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha ******************NOTE********************** Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry To completely clean Cygwin Portable installation run clean.bat in root directory Data Mail max_mem.c mbox msmtp.log procmail.log tmp

Look at the last line, bash seen interpreted my echo command in last
line as ls command, that not suppose to be.

It *is* supposed to be. Unlike cmd on Windows, metacharacters like * and ? and [...] are interpreted by bash. *****...* is equivalent to *, and * matches all the files in the current directory.

In general, quote your arguments.  Single-quote unless you want to do
variable interpolation ($abc), in which case double-quote.

echo 'Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha'
echo '******************NOTE**********************'
echo 'Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry'
echo 'To completely clean Cygwin Portable'
echo 'installation run clean.bat in root directory'
echo '********************************************'

--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com

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