First off, thanks posters for the responses "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since 'id' on its own might give you too many matches, it's worth mentioning > the handy trick that (this being 'doze not linux really) the full name of the > program is of course 'id.exe'. > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=id.exe > > That narrows it down sufficiently...
Yes Nice.... Thank you Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Ah, but this will not match scripts or symlinks. Since most executables > live in something that ends in "bin", and the package search page supports > full perl regular expressions, you can do > > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fid%5Cb Also nice... both are really nice tips "Jerry D. Hedden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > coreutils I figured something basic... but in a moment I'll explain why it appeared to be missing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: >> I've just installed a very minimal cygwin. I noticed the `id' tool is >> not present > > A little too minimal, I would say. id is part of coreutils, which is > a Base package, and as such, it should be part of every working > cygwin installation. You may want to run 'cygcheck -c' to see > which packages are incomplete, and should be reinstalled using > setup.exe. Not too minimal just too dumb on my part. It was nothing more serious than path not getting setup to point to C:/cygwin as `/'. I'm not sure why that would happen, but I may have left out some basic step in there.... I trashed an old install then ran a new one and didn't really read up on the proper steps for a cygwin install. > Also, following the directions here >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Ahh yes sorry. But it turns out to be operator error thru and thru. -- 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/
