Nellis, Kenneth:
> I came across an interesting (IMHO) incompatibility between Windows and bash
> environment variable names.
You can create odd environment names on Unixish systems too, but nobody relies
on them.
I've had the same issue; a build environment I use required the presence of
variable names with '(' and ')' in them. For the moment, I've hacked around the
issue by calling cmd.exe to do the work before launching the build system
proper, but eventually, in my Copious Free Time(TM), my plan is to patch bash
and add raw-getenv and raw-setenv builtins that do the obvious thing.
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