Re: [Mingw-users] "\r\n" in output from a gcc compiled app and shellinput

[Ian P. <ia...@un...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weddington, Eric 
> 
> > I have an XML parsing program that I wrote,
> 
> As a side note, why reinvent the wheel?:
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlstar>

Thanks - before embarking on it I spent some time searching on the web and
couldn't find anything, so I wish I'd known about that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Marshall 
> 
> > This works fine when I test it running it from bash. 
> > and when run from sh.exe it doesn't work.
> 
> MSYS' sh.exe *is* bash, (and AFAIK, it always has been),
> 
> > .. outputs a "\r\n" on the end of each line of output
> > and it seems that bash accepts the '\r' in processing the
> > "words=`xmlParse .....`" line, but sh.exe does not.
> 
> More likely, I think, that you have different *versions* of sh.exe on
> the two systems.

Thanks for that info. I searched for all msys sh.exe files on my system and
they all report their version as "bash version 3.1.0". So I tried removing
the sed call that I'd added to my script to strip out the '\r' and now I
can't get the problem to happen again. So whatever was causing it, it
apparently wasn't bash versus sh after all.

Thanks,
Ian