On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 04:55:01PM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >Jack Radigan wrote: >> Using the following script: >> #!/bin/bash >> set -x >> cat << eof | `ls /bin | grep "^grep$"` alpha >> alpha >> omega >> eof > >Easier repro showing this phenomena: > > ls /bin | grep '^grep$' > >On Linux, you'll get "grep" as output. Cygwin won't output anything.
Yep, but if you want to write code that will work on both *nix and Cygwin you could do this: ls /bin | sed -n -e 's/\.exe$//' -e '/grep/p' That works on both Cygwin and Linux. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
