Re: [PATCH v2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: May 14, 2015, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1431638653-9356-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuPDSdCyVNM+Gagang1Cf9yw0Tyios45i6pnZSSzaJJC2Q@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin <at> gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > In my tests, "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)" did *not* work:
> >
> >     $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> >     bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> 
> Interesting. In both MSYS1/2 Git Bashes I get on Windows 7 64-bit:
> 
> $ echo "$PROGRAMFILES(X86)"
> C:\Program Files (x86)(X86)
> 
> So it seems to resolve only the $PROGRAMFILES part and appending the
> literal "(X86)". Not sure how to tell Bash that "(X86)" is part of the
> variable name.

It would be ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}, but POSIX says that variable names can only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores, and Bash adheres when it complains about it in Johannes' example above. Not sure whether there is a clever escaping that could make it work, I couldn't find any.

G�bor