bash 2.0.2 backquoted text includes final carriage return
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Mon May 31 21:10:00 GMT 1999
Strange. I get this type of behavior using the cygwin product regardless of
the binmode setting (unspecified, binmode or nobinmode). I am using text mode
mounts which may be the cause of it working/not working.
--- "Randall R. Schulz" <rschulz@teknowledge.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The original complaint is correct. Here's what happens on Solaris under
> bash 2.0.2:
>
> 1001> shell
> BASH=/usr/local/bin/bash; BASH_VERSION=2.01.0(1)-release
>
> 1002> echo -n `hostname` |od -c
> 0000000 n i t r o g e n
> 0000010
>
>
> Here's the same under Linux:
>
> 1001> shell
> BASH=/bin/bash; BASH_VERSION=2.02.0(3)-release
> 1002> echo -n `hostname` |od -c
> echo -n `hostname` | od -c
> 0000000 t i t a n i u m . t e k n o w l
> 0000020 e d g e . c o m
> 0000030
>
>
> BTW, using $( ... ) instead of ` ... ` (my personal preference) yields the
> same results.
>
> Lastly, on page 18 of my copy of the BASH manual (sec. 3.10.2 Command
> Substitution), it is explicitly stated that trailing newlines are removed.
>
===
"Earnie Boyd" < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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