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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:16:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: zsh cygpath problem in cygwin
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_L=C3=BCbbe?= <jlu@ivu.de>
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On 24 June 2010 15:03, Jan L=C3=BCbbe <jlu@ivu.de> wrote:
> Hello zsh users,
>
> I have a very strange problem in cygwin. If I use cygpath normally in the
> zsh everything is fine. But if I assign a variable like JAVA_HOME then
> strange thinks happen. "k\b" disappears and stuff like that. The strange
> thing is, that this does not happen in bash under cygwin. It must somehow=
 be
> related to the zsh. Do you have any ideas?
>
> % JAVA_HOME=3D"`cygpath -wl /cygdrive/d/Programme/Java/JavaEE61x32/jdk/bi=
n`"
> % echo $JAVA_HOME
> D:\Programme\Java\JavaEE61x32\jdin
> % cygpath -wl
> /cygdrive/d/Programme/Java/JavaEE61x32/jdk/bin/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin
> D:\Programme\Java\JavaEE61x32\jdk\bin

echo interprets escape sequences, you can use echo -E to suppress
this. The variable itself is correctly assigned. (\b means move the
cursor back one step, so this causes the i to overwrite the k.)

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Mikael Magnusson