On Sunday, January 17, 2021, 02:44:37 PM EST, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: >matthew patton via Cygwin writes: >> can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so? >> echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P -
> You probably forgot that setup is a Windows program. besides, you must > not start it from the Cygwin that you are about to install a package into. so Windows programs can't be written to read from STDIN? I can't think of any Unix utility that uses commas to delimit. And any Windows one that uses commas is clearly improper/wrong was well. If "you're not supposed to invoke setup.exe from within cygwin" were true then all the 'xargs' and 'paste' workarounds are null and void. And no, I don't automatically reach for xargs to bandaid around poorly written programs that violate 50 years of convention. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
