Strange cygpath/Perl 5.8 interaction?

[Bakken, Luke]

lukeb@cbinfralxb ~
$ cygpath -w /c/temp | xxd
0000000: 633a 5c74 656d 700a                      c:\temp.

lukeb@cbinfralxb ~
$ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\"" | xxd
0000000: 2263 3a5c 7465 6d70 220a                 "c:\temp".

lukeb@cbinfralxb ~
$ perl -e'$a=`cygpath -w /c/temp`;print "\"$a\""' | xxd
0000000: 2263 3a5c 7465 6d70 0a22                 "c:\temp."

I'd say something was up with echo/bash, not with perl.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrison, Jim [mailto:jim.garrison@athensgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:13 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Strange cygpath/Perl 5.8 interaction?
> 
> 
> In bash:
> 
>   $ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\""
>   "c:\temp"
> 
> 
> But in Perl:
> 
>   $a = `cygpath -w /c/temp`;
>   print "|$a|";
> 
> produces
> 
> |c:\temp
> |
> 
> I.e., Perl sees an extra \n at the end of the string. I looked at
> the source for cygpath and it doesn't seem to be adding a \n, so
> I suspect the problem is an unforeseen interaction between Cygwin
> and Perl's backtick operator.  Can anyone shed light on this topic?
> 
> Jim Garrison
> jhg@athensgroup.com
> 
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