bug in bash with sergey's latest patches?
Michael A. Chase
mchase@ix.netcom.com
Mon Nov 3 05:31:00 GMT 1997
It looks like your are getting a CR at the end of the output from
hostname. To check my guess, try:
echo " '$HOST' "
echo " '$DISPLAY' "
If I'm right, you'll see something like
' 'dulcea
:0.0 'dulcea
I don't see the effect with Sergey's 971029 cygwin.dll.
Mac :})
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Mitchell <mitchell@cs.ucsd.edu>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 18:40
Subject: bug in bash with sergey's latest patches?
>
>bash, with the Sergey's latest patches, seems to have a bug. From the
>command line, this works:
>
> % export HOST=`hostname`
> % printenv HOST
> DULCEA # this is fine, notice all caps
> % export DISPLAY=$HOST:0.0
> % printenv DISPLAY
> DULCEA:0.0
>
>but if I stick these two lines in my .bashrc
> export HOST=`hostname`
> export DISPLAY=$HOST:0.0
>
>I get this:
> % printenv HOST
> dulcea # fine, but notice lower case, now
> % printenv DISPLAY
> :0.0ea # oops!
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