On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Lisbeth Kellogg wrote: > 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.
Like find, rexec, ... Having 'C:\Cygwin\bin' at the front of your PATH environment variable would have solved this. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
