You could try replacing all of your `command` syntax with $(command). AFAIK, this was introduced with ksh way way back. The back tick support was kept for compatibility with older bourne shell scripts. But at that time AT&T were recommending $() syntax, though they also recommended that root should use /bin/sh not /bin/ksh, go figure.
Anyway the replacement should work for scripts that you are developing. If you have a large number of existing scripts maybe something like sed -e "s/`.*`/$(&)/g" (this might require a lot of excapes to work, YMMV) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of geneSmith > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backticks hang with dynamic antivirus scanning > > > Marco Moreno wrote, On 2/20/2004 11:46 PM: > > > I recently upgraded cygwin to the latest version and now I'm having > > Command's dynamic antivirus protection conflict with Cygwin > so that it > > hangs whenever it encounters backticks in a shell script (e.g. > > /etc/profile). Configuring the antivirus to ignore c:\cygwin had no > > effect. If I disable dynamic virus protection, all is well. > > > > Has anyone else encountered this? Has anything changed in > how backticks > > are handled that might cause it to conflict with antivirus software? > > Just trying to get a handle on this to submit a bug report > to Command > > Software. (Though I'm not holding my breath that they'll offer a > > solution other than to avoid cygwin.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marco Moreno > > > > > > No one answered this back in Feb that I could tell. I am seeing a > possibly related or similar problem. I am trying to build a > large shall > script based project under cygwin called RTEMS. It has been reported > that anti-virus can somehow affect the build and cause almost random > errors. I can't disable my a.v. since it requires a secret p/w. Could > this really be the problem? > > -- > Lit up like Levy's > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/