On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, David Arnstein wrote: >> I have a bash shell script named xplo that worked as desired under >> cygwin 1.5. It fails under cygwin 1.7. > > Your shell script is incorrect, and I don't see how it worked under > 1.5. This line: > >> set EXPLOR='/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe' > > does NOT set a variable named EXPLOR. Instead, it sets the first > positional argument ($1) to the string > "EXPLOR=/cygdrive/c/windows/explorer.exe". Whatever the old value of > $1 was, it's now gone. > > To fix, get rid of the "set". In sh and derivatives, "set" sets the > positional arguments (and optionally flags that affect the shell's > behavior); it does NOT set variables. Just use the assignment syntax > (var=value) by itself for that. >
Of course I am too slow (by about 15 minutes). >.< -- 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
