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RE: bash quoting bug?
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- Subject: RE: bash quoting bug?
- From: "Frederick, Ralph" <frederr@wdni.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:44:10 -0800
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Igor, I can reproduce your problem.
I believe you were tying to indicate that the problem lies in using the
ActiveState binary (regular win32) when calling it from a cygwin bash.
I don't know much about either ActiveState Perl or Cygnus' bash, and I don't
have a cygwin Perl installed right now but I doubt the problem would occur
there if I did, so perhaps the blame lies with ActiveState.
Since I can't offer a solution, how about a work around? When you run
command line perl script under NT's CMD shell you need to escape the quote
characters.
Under NT CMD session:
perl -e "printf \"a b\n\";"
In a UNIX like environment you don't need to:
perl -e 'printf "a b\n";'
Rather than switch back and forth all the time, I use generic quotes. This
runs for me under a CMD prompt and a BASH prompt with ActivePerl and under a
Linux bash prompt with a standard Perl build:
perl -e "printf qq/a b\n/;"
Generic quotes let you define the quote character, so you can use any quote
character that does not appear in your string, or matched braces if you
like:
perl -e "printf qq(a b\n);"
Incidentally, I have heard it is "bad" to get in the habit of using printf
in perl where print would suffice, though I don't think it matters very
often ;-)
Ralph Frederick
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Smith [mailto:Brian.Smith@PicoDyne.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 09:18 AM
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: 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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