Ray, Were I to guess why "local" and the I/O redirection syntax _appear_ to be missing when your script executes, I'd guess that it's because the script(s) in question begins with this:
#!/bin/sh Under Cygwin, /bin/sh is Ash, not BASH. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 18:00 2002-09-21, Ray Pimm wrote: >I have successfully installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 SP3. However, when I >attempt to run a bash shell script that works fine under Linux, two >problems occur. > >1. The bash "local" builtin does not seem to work. Error message is >"local: not found". > >2. Both shorthand formats "&>file" and ">&file" for redirecting standard >output and standard error do not work. However, the longhand equivalent >">file 2>&1" does work. > >Strangely, both of the above features work from the bash command line (but >not from a shell script). > >Cygwin version is 1.3.12-4. > >Bash version is 2.05b-5. An earlier version 2.05a-3 also fails. > >Ray -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
