Hi Igor,
Thanks very much for your help. After this change, its working fine.
Regards,
Nrusinh
>From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Nrusinh Ambekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: problem - if statement in shell script gives opposite results
>with new bash
>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:18:01 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Nrusinh,
>
>On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Nrusinh Ambekar wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have recently downloaded new cygwin. I am getting incorrect results
>when I
> > run simple shell script using bash. The same shell script runs fine with
>old
> > cygwin bash.
> >
> > Your help is really appreciated.
> > thanks,
> > Nrusinh
>
>A quick correction: it's not the if statement that gives the opposite
>results, it's the "test" command (the "[...]" construct) that returns an
>"opposite" value. This having been said, there are a couple of problems
>with your script (see below):
>
> > The script is as follows
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> ^
>Why is your bash in /usr/local/bin? It's normally installed in /bin (or
>/usr/bin, which is usually the same under Cygwin).
>
> > myfunc()
> > {
> > local item=$1
> > shift 1
> > local list=" $* "
> > echo "item is"
> > echo $item
> > echo "list is"
> > echo $list
> > if [ "${item}" = "${list}" ] || [ "${list#"* ${item} *"}" != "${list}" ]
>|| [ "${list#"${item} "}" != "${list}" ] || [ "${list%" ${item}"}" !=
>"${list}" ]
> ^
>Your quoting seems off here. Quotes do not nest in bash (or any other
>shells)... Besides, if you're using the curlies ("{}") to delimit
>variable substitutions, you don't need to quote stuff inside the curlies.
>
>Also, your prefix/suffix matches don't seem well-constructed. The first
>one, frankly, doesn't make sense at all - bash cannot match regular
>expressions open at both ends. You're better off with something like
>this (which works, btw):
>
>if [ "${item}" = "${list}" ] || [ "${list#* ${item} }" != "${list}" ] || [
>"${list% ${item} *}" != "${list}" ]
>
> > then
> > echo "found"
> > else
> > echo "not found"
> > fi
> > }
> >
> > myfunc CECA OTA OEA CECA
>
>So, this is not a bash bug after all. I'm really not sure why the script
>used to work... You probably relied on some bug that was fixed in the
>current version. And, unless you had a link from /usr/local/bin/bash to
>/usr/bin/bash (or ran this explicitly with "bash script.bash"), this
>wouldn't have worked at all.
> Igor
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