bash expansion question

[Christopher Jones]

Title: RE: bash expansion question





Is your script calling /bin/sh?  Is /bin/sh actually 'bash' or is it the default 'ash' shell?  Using b20.1 I get 'bar' both times with script or command line.

Brian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Dufair [ mailto:jase@deadbeets.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 10:29 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: bash expansion question
> 
> 
> Hello -
> 
> I have cygwin b20 running on WinNT SP6
> 
> at the command line I get the following:
> 
> $ foo=bar/baz
> $ echo ${foo%%/*}
> foo
> 
> However, if I have the following in a script:
> 
> foo=bar/baz
> echo ${foo%%/*}
> 
> and then run it, I get
> $ test.sh
> ba
> 
> It seems to be dropping one too many characters.  It seems I've either
> found an expansion bug or I'm misunderstanding something.  
> Testing this
> on my linux box (bash 1.14.7), it works as expected.  Can someone
> clarify this for me?  Thanks a lot.
> 
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