What is different about your particular installation, I have no idea.
Actually, one idea. Your 'type' might be an alias or function that fails to quote its arguments properly. Try "builtin type -a type". If it doesn't return precisely "type is a shell builtin", then that's your problem.
Jeremy Hetzler
-- 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/