Problem with bash command substitution?

[Matthew Brown]

Maybe try

export NODE=`hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`

(Note the back-ticks.) I assume that you are wanting to set the variable NODE to the output of the command?

-- Matthew Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Rankin" <rick_rankin@yahoo.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Problem with bash command substitution?


> I discovered that bash is hanging on the following line in my .bash_profile:
> 
> export NODE=$(hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')
> 
> If I type 
> 
> hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
> 
> on the command line, it returns immediately with the results I expect. It only
> seems to hang inside the $() or `` command substitution mechanism. I currently
> have
> 
> CYGWIN=tty notitle glob ntea nontsec
> 
> and I have all text mounts. I'm using the latest snapshot. Has anyone else seen
> this behavior?
> 
> Rick
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