shell back quote expansion problem

[Tarr, Stephen F]

The first of these failed, the second one worked.  I don't understand how
writing the
output into a file and reading it back in with 'cat' is removing the
carriage returns, but
that's clearly the key to making the shell happy.

-ST

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Heribert Dahms [SMTP:heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de]
> Sent:	Friday, June 23, 2000 12:58 PM
> To:	'Tarr, Stephen F'; 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject:	RE: shell back quote expansion problem
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> try (untested): ls -l `cmd /c dir /b *.h | cat`
> or ls -l `cmd /c dir /b *.h | tr -d '\r'`
> 
> Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Tarr, Stephen F [SMTP:stephen.f.tarr@opbu.xerox.com]
> > Sent:	Friday, June 23, 2000 21:47
> > To:	'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> > Subject:	shell back quote expansion problem
> > 
> > [Heribert]  [snip]
> > 
> > 3. back quote expansion fails with output from an MS-DOS command
> > 
> > 	ls -l `cmd /c dir /b *.h`
> > 
> > [Heribert]  [snip]
> > 

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