[Orgmode] Re: [babel] Sh problem when echo'ing input data with ' inside

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
>> I asked the question on the Cygwin mailing list, and got an answer from 
>> Tobias
>> Schlottke, telling me to use the 'plain old' syntax (=`...`= instead of
>> =$(...)=):
>
> On further investigation, this is a bug in bash3, fixed in bash4 (hence why
> I didn't see it on Linux). Bash4 is now available as "experimental" in the
> latest version of Cygwin. It's a bit tricky to install since you will also
> need the experimental version of libreadline7 (package version 6.1) and the
> setup kind of works against you: I've not managed to install both of them in
> one go and you will need to be careful with updates since I believe setup
> will always try to reverse these to the non-experimental versions unless you
> allow them globally (which I don't want). In any case, the problem with the
> '$( )' construct is indeed fixed and the next Cygwin release will hopefully
> have this new bash as standard.

Thanks a lot for the follow-up, and for the above details about the problem!

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban