\r in variables and test

[Michael Hoffman]

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In a ./configure script, I call a test program (native python, actually)
> that outputs "True\r\n" and I put this result in variable foo. The
> problem is that [ "$foo" = True ] doesn't return true because foo
> actually contains True\r, not True.
> 
> Is there a nice way around this?

You haven't provided sufficient information about which bits you are 
willing to change.

Some things you could do are:

* use Cygwin Python
* change the Python script to output \n instead of \r\n
* [ $foo = $'True\r' ]
* [ ${foo/%$'\r'/} = True ]

The last has the advantage that it will work even if the script outputs 
only "True\n" instead of \r\n.


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