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Re: Strange cygpath/Perl 5.8 interaction?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:13:01PM -0500, Garrison, Jim wrote:
>In bash:
>
> $ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\""
> "c:\temp"
>
>
>But in Perl:
>
> $a = `cygpath -w /c/temp`;
> print "|$a|";
>
>produces
>
>|c:\temp
>|
>
>I.e., Perl sees an extra \n at the end of the string. I looked at
>the source for cygpath and it doesn't seem to be adding a \n, so
>I suspect the problem is an unforeseen interaction between Cygwin
>and Perl's backtick operator. Can anyone shed light on this topic?
I don't see anything unforeseen about the above behavior. Substitute
/bin/echo for the cygpath above and you'll see the same behavior on
UNIX.
cgf
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