From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 05:40:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuNvTZ27CCquHHtC5bQFkG2k-+SDYw-6U2TRzzHyFiFwJw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1431638653-9356-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:24 PM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> wrote:

>> $ 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.

Right, I did already try that curly-braces-style of quoting, and
MSYS1/2 both give:

$ echo ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}
sh.exe": ${PROGRAMFILES(X86)}: bad substitution

I couldn't find any other style of quoting that works, either.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth