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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: bash and expr difficulty
Date:	Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:22:15 +0200
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Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 23:54 schrieb Juan Manuel Guerrero:
> Please look at the following code snippet:
> 
> q=0
> q=`expr 1 + 1`
> echo q=$q
> 
> If this shell script is ran with bash 2.05b with LFN support available then
> it produces the expected output:
> 
> q=2
> 
> If the same script is ran from plan DOS (no LFN support) the script fails
> with output:
> 
> q=

OFYI, I have replaced bash 2.05b with bash 2.04 and that version does *not*
exhibit this failure. With bash 2.04 the configure script works on plain DOS
and on Win98SE.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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