Extra CR symbol from backticks on Cygwin 2.9.0

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Tue Sep 12 09:20:00 GMT 2017


Greetings, Nikolay Melekhin!

Please don't top-post. Thank you.


> Thanks! This option is what I am looking for.
> However I cannot agree with you on bash behavior in Cygwin. Section of
> command substitution in bash documentation says:

> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Substitution

> "...with any trailing newlines deleted." That is why I expected that
> bash should remove trailing newlines in command substitution results,
> which are CRLF on Windows.
> From my point of view, bash in Cygwin should follow the same rule on
> Linux and Windows: remove trailing newlines in command substitution.
> So remove trailing CRLF on Windows.

Cygwin adhere to POSIX standard. Not Windows.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:06:51

Sorry for my terrible english...


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