This is not specifically related to Cygwin.
Anyway, your command does not work because the variables (variableA and nextVariable) are expanded by Bash before the line is executed (as always).
In fact, something like this would work:
variableA=valA nextVariable=next eval 'echo $variableA $nextVariable'
Ciao,
Danilo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Folks
I hove the problem to set variable in front of executing a command. The bash manpage says that a simple command is a set of variable assignment followed by the command
So I think that
variableA=valA nextVariable=next echo $variableA $nextVariable should echo valA next but when I try this in the bash the echo is empty
Did I understand something wrong or is it a bug?
Regards
Franz
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