Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: L A Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: problem with extra space; setting? cygwin only? Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:24:47 -0700 Lines: 24 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20200623192919.GJ19673@eeg.ccf.org> <17a714e4-9c8a-4ddd-9989-4af40b686cd2@archlinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1592943908 15654 209.51.188.17 (23 Jun 2020 20:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: Eli Schwartz Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=8WsHIQtpGdFf+lSBj7myh8WtfS0hs9NjIYiDqyQaHQw=; b=BfoJNZVnkLSbFphWQP1pG1zYnF4qZ6ZaQLiq+qkGQgbock+052kLR5KEguw/7hDLIp N4VEFlYwrSzmWZkQGLxYWNrKXndXrX+eUVeRGtA6ECIIeXctnPlamBf6eqZIxcXtqPK0 pMpqJef3oUMggJWpak46DarVrmUVBei7GXNi03FPhST+EO4y33LUw5Gb5Aij6jC8IIxP zAQjRiuDhrzjQGqBSXp8/3bb6lzgoIdFk+iZSfHHz2X6I+O7RqYm6J7PLSra48GmeJDH nvmZJWSumsc2axEMMGv3Prj2WAurG4pwArhVwSoEFejD/QcQMu6D8PWmK4upCL/hcgR9 FKBA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530M9DO0A2K7B9Sj7YfF2fbPlF+khyk3XjxLoZ41Vt2gIhDV0+8g Xn8Asp7J0nKu2z0LVyx8m2vukjW4vjtAgPY3GrsxkQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyj0lWyT/H1zAJb6VCj99i59QcLzx8NScVXT5Bxssu4ZqH8pSrE054+wxJvDXltIw14noYtjuSovj5gcMSWTLY= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:8444:: with SMTP id w4mr5056822ior.106.1592943901252; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:25:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <17a714e4-9c8a-4ddd-9989-4af40b686cd2@archlinux.org> Received-SPF: softfail client-ip=209.85.166.52; envelope-from=gsuite@tlinx.org; helo=mail-io1-f52.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/06/23 16:25:01 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -21 X-Spam_score: -2.2 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.665 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <20200623192919.GJ19673@eeg.ccf.org> <17a714e4-9c8a-4ddd-9989-4af40b686cd2@archlinux.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:16451 re: IFS... yup. that was it, not sure how it got cleared, but it did. Thanks for the clue. As for gmail....necessity creates unfortunate circumstances...having your main file system (RAID 0) fail, along with your backups (in a separate disk enclosure, also RAID 0), isn't something that happens every day. Still unsure what, if anything, is recoverable. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 1:04 PM Eli Schwartz wrote: > Why would you use their incompetent webmail if you know it is broken? > > > Be that as it may, I can trivially reproduce your error by destroying my > own $IFS > > $ output="" IFS=/ > $ set output > $ printf ${1:+-v $1} "%s:%s" 23 myproc > bash: printf: ` output': not a valid identifier > >