Problems with bashrc in cygwin

Mon Dec 25 20:44:00 GMT 2006

I have installed cygwin and am having problems with my bashrc that I have
been unable to resolve. I am sure I must be missing something obvious, but
the source of the problem evades me. The most perplexing symptom I am
experiencing is the following:
If I include the following in my .bashrc:
 x1="xyz"
 x2="123"
 x3=$x1/$x2
then when I subsequently type "echo $x3" at the command line, the response
is "/123" rather than the expected "xyz/123". Note that I experience this
problem whether or not I export the values of x1 and x2. Particularly
perplexing is that if I do all this at the command line, it works just fine.
I apologize to those receiving this email if I am missing something
blatantly obvious, but I'm stumped. Thanks in advance for any assistance
that you can provide.
--Hyam Singer
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