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RE: bash quoting bug?

Interesting,

I'm using BASH on 20.1, and perl version 5.004_04 built for cygwin32,
and the results I got were:
a b


Must be something else,

Brian
-        Brian S. Smith
-     PicoDyne Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Igor Schein
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:28 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: bash quoting bug?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is with default bash and ActivePerl:
> 
> $ perl -e 'printf "a b\n";'
> Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
> 
> The above works fine with tcsh ( as well as on any other OS I 
> tried it ).  
> So I guess it must be bash bug.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Igor
> 
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