trouble with bash / if in recent release / update ?

Tue Jan 30 07:18:00 GMT 2007

Tim Hanson <t.hanson <at> faz.de> writes:
>> hi, a colleague and i recently tried upgrading an existing cygwin and found 
that
> basic bash script features broke. 
> [...]
>> does this ring a bell for anyone?
>> i'd be grateful for pointers. (or advice on how to provide more clues.)
>> cheers,
>> Tim
>>You aren't alone, Tim.
I have same problem. I updated last night. My sh (bourne shell) scripts didn't 
work this morning. I diff the bash.exe and sh.exe binaries and they are the 
same. I tried updating from a differnt mirror, but that didn't fix the problem.
Workaround: I'm using zsh instead of sh .
Back to the bugs ... `echo' command seems to work backwards! 
In a script...
 echo foo bar
produces output ...
 bar foo
A blank line in the script file produces err msg 
: command not found

I can't figure out a way to make the new version of sh.exe work. Imho, it's 
broken.
db
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