"Accent problem" still not fixed in current cygwin release

[Jason Tishler]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:21:29AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> I can't even write a primitive shell script in this thing because I don't
> have the inverted apostroph I need to _execute_ unix commands, eg
> 
> cp -p $1 `echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g'`

I'm sure that this won't solve all of your problems, but why not use the
equivalent "$(...)" syntax:

    cp -p $1 $(echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g')

Jason

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