I guess I found the answer to my own question. Since some other people
have had this same problem, here is the solution.
There is a problem with the PATH environment under Win 2000. To
identify the problem I typed the following in DOS:
bash -c "which sort"
I got a response of "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/sort" instead of
"/usr/bin/sort". This is the DOS sort command, not the cygwin sort
command. I just had to change my command to:
bash -c "c:/cygwin/bin/sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o
sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt"
This could be a problem any time the DOS and cygwin commands have the
same name.
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Lisbeth Kellogg
Office: 651-675-2610
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Subject: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file
I am having a problem with trying to sort a pipe-delimited file using
the cygwin sort command from a dos batch file. If I enter the command
in cygwin environment, it works fine:
sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt unsortedfile.txt
But I have problems running it from a dos batch file. It appears to
work in Windows XP but not in Windows 2000. The command in the batch
file is:
bash -c "sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt
unsortedfile.txt"
In Win XP it executes without a problem, but in Win 2000, I get a
message the says, "Input file specified two times," as if it does not
recognize the -o option. If I put the sort command in an echo, I get
the results I would expect, so the -o is not lost:
bash -c "echo sort -t \| -k 3 -k 11 -k 12 -o sortedfile.txt
unsortedfile.txt"
Rearranging the arguements and adding extra escape characters in various
combinations don't seem to help.
Any ideas, please?
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Lisbeth Kellogg
Office: 651-675-2610
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