bash CR and backquotes trouble

Thu Nov 2 17:49:00 GMT 2006

On 11/02/2006, Nicolas Roche wrote:
> I am using bash version:
> 3.1.17(9)
> 
> I have tried to use shopt -s igncr but I have an issue with the following 
> shell construct:
> 
> t=`gcc --print-multi-lib` where gcc is a mingw gcc.
> 
> As my gcc is a mingw program, it outputs CR/LFs. In previous versions bash 
> used to ignore the CR, so t variable was not containing any CR.
> Now this is no more the case and this is causing some troubles 

Why isn't "t=`gcc --print-multi-lib | d2u`" not a solution here?

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