Out of curiosity, why are there 2 different sets of quotes? Thanks, Greg Borbonus
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 10:23 PM Bob McGowan via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > I am trying to set things up so the Bash profile detects if bash is > running from the Windows "XWin Server" startup link or not. The startup > link has the following as the command: > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec > /usr/bin/startxwin" > > So I thought I'd try adding the env command to set an environment variable: > > C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/env startxwin=yes > /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" > > This works (if there's a better way, I'd be happy to learn of it) but in > the process of testing I had a problem when echo'ing the variable. > > For purposes of describing the bug, I simplified the command as follows: > > env startup=yes bash -l -c 'echo "cmd: $startup"' > > I also added an "echo profile: $startup" to the .bash_profile file. > > When I run the above in a Cygwin shell, the output is: > > $ env startup=yes bash -l -c "echo cmd: $startup" > profile: yes > $ > > When I run it in a Linux shell, the output is: > > $ env startup=yes bash -l -c 'echo "cmd: $startup"' > profile: yes > cmd: yes > $ > > As you can see, the Cygwin side fails to generate any output from the -c > echo command but on the Linux system there is output. > > Normally I'd call this a bug but since this is running under Windows it > may be some weirdness of the implementation required to create the Linux > like environment. > > The Bash version in Cygwin is 4.4.12(3)-release and for my Debian Linux > system, it is 5.0.3(1)-release. So it could also be that it existed in > Linux 4.x series and has been fixed in the 5.x series. > > Bob > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
