Ken, At 12:05 2003-02-02, G. Ken Holman wrote:
Hi folks,"B" as in beta? b17, b18... One of those? Ancient history and truly the good old days of Cygnus / Cygwin.
I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was included.
I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday and ensured that I included the "grep" package.That's a common technique in Unix programming. Because by universal convention the name of the program _as it was invoked_ is passed as argument 0, a single binary can have "multiple personalities." This can be accomplished by either symbolic or hard links. Grep is one such multifaceted program. When invoked as "egrep" it behaves like egrep.
I went to use "egrep.exe" and found it wasn't installed. I did find an egrep.1 but it just points to grep.
I reviewed my installation and found "Keep" for grep package 2.5-1 (indicating to me the package has been installed), and see egrep listed in the package description. I also see fgrep listed, though I'm not interested in using it.Look for the symlinks "fgrep -> grep" and "egrep -> grep". Symlinks don't include the ".exe" suffix even if they're pointing to a ".exe" file. The same goes for the symlink target name, too.
Neither egrep.exe nor fgrep.exe exist in my bin/ directory, as I would have expected. Did this fall through the cracks?
In the short term I can copy grep.exe to egrep.exe because my existing batch files rely on it by name, so I just thought I'd report this in case either:I don't believe anything needs to be fixed in the package. Perhaps for some reason your system lost the symlinks that supply fgrep and egrep?
(1) the files get added or
(2) the package description removes references to the files not included.
I hope this helps.
................... Ken
p.s. http://cygwin.com/bugs.html points to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and says where *not* to send bugs, but not where bugs should be sent for problems like this ... I would have thought that would be a FAQ: "which bugs (by example) go to which mail lists?"
Randall Schulz
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