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"too many arguments" error in /etc/profile
- From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: "too many arguments" error in /etc/profile
When starting a login shell using the current release of Cygwin, I get
the error:
bash: [: too many arguments
I tracked this down to my group name having a space in it ("Domain
Users"). Fix for /etc/profile is below.
- Pat
Date: 20 Aug 2003 14:56:24 -0400
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--- /etc/profile.orig 2003-08-20 14:52:09.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/profile 2003-08-20 14:52:51.000000000 -0400
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
# a mistake (ie, don't email about it!), comment the
# test out below.
groupID=`id -ng`
-if [ "mkpasswd" == ${groupID} -o "mkgroup" == ${groupID} -o "mkgroup_l_d" == ${groupID} ]; then
+if [ "mkpasswd" == "${groupID}" -o "mkgroup" == "${groupID}" -o "mkgroup_l_d" == "${groupID}" ]; then
echo "Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly."
echo " This typically happens if you are a domain user"
echo " (cygwin does not automatically create /etc/passwd or"
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