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Re: Problem with bash command substitution?
- To: "Rick Rankin" <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>, "Cygwin" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problem with bash command substitution?
- From: "Matthew Brown" <mbrown at mediadb dot net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:21:11 -0500
- References: <20000225184216.27967.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>
Maybe try
export NODE=`hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
(Note the back-ticks.) I assume that you are wanting to set the variable NODE to the output of the command?
-- Matthew Brown
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Rankin" <rick_rankin@yahoo.com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Problem with bash command substitution?
> I discovered that bash is hanging on the following line in my .bash_profile:
>
> export NODE=$(hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')
>
> If I type
>
> hostname | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
>
> on the command line, it returns immediately with the results I expect. It only
> seems to hang inside the $() or `` command substitution mechanism. I currently
> have
>
> CYGWIN=tty notitle glob ntea nontsec
>
> and I have all text mounts. I'm using the latest snapshot. Has anyone else seen
> this behavior?
>
> Rick
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