Date: 1 Mar 1996 07:31:23 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/1052: /bin/sh problem with new GCC (snapshot for 2.8) Message-ID: <4h694b$4eq@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199602292227.XAA05612@noisy.matematik.su.se>
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tege@matematik.su.se wrote:
: >Synopsis: /bin/sh problem with new GCC (snapshot for 2.8)
...
: >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
maybe it's solved in -current ?
: >Description:
: The /bin/sh of FreeBSD doesn't work as on other systems, or like bash.
: The problem seems to be with the builtin `eval'.
: >How-To-Repeat:
: bash$ foo=tomte; var=foo; echo `eval echo \\$$var`
: tomte
: sh$ foo=tomte; var=foo; echo `eval echo \\$$var`
: 5578var
looks like it's interpreting the $$ as the pid of the process and thus
ignoring the \\ 's
t
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thomas graichen graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de graichen@FreeBSD.org
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