G. Ken Holman wrote: > At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote: >>> I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe >>> utility was included. >> >> Sigh. > > I apologize for having taken your time with this to warrant such an > exclamation.
I think the "Sigh" was referring to the fact that people are *still* using Bxx versions, even though they are about 5 years old. > I was citing my previous experience with Cygwin where I > had utilized an "exe" and created ".bat" files that pointed to it. > After installing the new version my batch files stopped working. Well, Bxx -> 1.3.x is a major version number increase. A little breakage here and there is to be expected. >>> I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday >>> and ensured that I included the "grep" package. >>> >>> I went to use "egrep.exe" and found it wasn't installed. I did >>> find an egrep.1 but it just points to grep. >> >> egrep and fgrep are symbolic links to grep.exe. Both work properly >> when invoked from bash. I just checked. > > Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I > miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash? No, but running symlinks from a non-Cygwin program is not possible. > Could there be a FAQ that says "where is the .exe I'm expecting?" ... > when not running in bash? I did a search on the FAQ TOC for .exe and > didn't find anything. Its not frequently-asked - possibly because most people use Cygwin shells. > I honestly tried to solve this without burdening the list with another > question, and was basing my question on my prior experience with the > Cygwin collection. Good. But the list is here to help, so don't worry. Also, if you have just upgraded from a Bxx version, then your prior experience will be a little out-of-date. Max. -- 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/
