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Re: Incorrect expression evaluation?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:13:10 -0800
- Subject: Re: Incorrect expression evaluation?
Andrew,
I cannot reproduce your result unless I do this:
% x="-l -d"
% ls "$x"
ls: invalid option --
Try `ls --help' for more information.
I tried using hard (single) quotes for the variable setting command, but
the result is the same. Likewise for $'-l -d'.
I also tried using /bin/sh (ash, I believe), but again I cannot reproduce
your erroneous result.
I tempted to chalk this up to some kind of operator error...
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 15:29 2002-03-13, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Perhaps this is more of a bash problem than a Cygwin problem however
>Cygwin's bash is not acting like bash on Solaris. In Cygwin's bash:
>
>$ x="-l -d"
>$ ls $x
>ls: invalid option --
>Try `ls --help' for more information.
>
>Now on Solaris (also running bash):
>
>$ x="-l -d"
>$ ls $x
>drwxr-xr-x 4 adefaria other 512 Feb 22 15:13 ./
>
>What gives?
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