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From: "Garrison, Jim" <jim.garrison@athensgroup.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Strange cygpath/Perl 5.8 interaction?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:13:01 -0500 
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In bash:

  $ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\""
  "c:\temp"


But in Perl:

  $a = `cygpath -w /c/temp`;
  print "|$a|";

produces

|c:\temp
|

I.e., Perl sees an extra \n at the end of the string. I looked at
the source for cygpath and it doesn't seem to be adding a \n, so
I suspect the problem is an unforeseen interaction between Cygwin
and Perl's backtick operator.  Can anyone shed light on this topic?

Jim Garrison
jhg@athensgroup.com

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