Easy? sed syntax

Please can anybody help with a simply-stated sed problem? I realise this is not Cygwin-specific, but it is Cygwin-relevant because it is required in order to write a script to mount a portable Cygwin system on any host machine, so I hope it's all right to ask for help here. The problem reduces to:

Re: another cygport bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >>> The check for config_h in cygautoreconf does not work when the >>> line requests a template by a different name, as is the case with >>> coreutils 6.4: >>> >>> $ grep CONFIG_HEADERS coreutils-6.4/

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

Hi Johnathon, This workaround worked for me: $ cmd /c test.bat "hello world" Cheers, Greg Martyn pgpfOZyZeA019.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

On 10/25/06, Wynfield Henman <> wrote: I don't know about corkscrew, but some variation of the below which I use may be helpful to you. Regards, Darel Henman -- # Example: ## Get connect (small yet good)

Re: Problem with Cygwin Installation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Champ Mendis on 10/25/2006 6:59 PM: > > I installed Cywin in my Desktop Windows XP SP2 last year. I used gcc > 3.3.3.3 to compile my code. It worked fine and I had more than > 20 of my systems running well. With XP Media Edition, I down

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

. Reformatted. Wynfield Henman wrote: On 10/26/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) cygwin com> wrote: ^^^ . Don't feed the spammers. Thanks. Ben Le

RE: device drivers - general info

> From: George Locke > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:48 PM > Subject: device drivers - general info > > Hi group, > > I am running windows 2k with the most recent Cygwin version > 1.5.21-1, just installed it last week. > > I wish to create a C++ program that communicates with a > windows

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Lewis Hyatt on 10/25/2006 1:48 PM: > Below is a patch to shell.c which implements my suggestion (It is just the > output of diff -u, is that OK? The patch is relative to the 3.2-4 version.) I > just modified the open_shell_script() functio

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

Larry, at the prompt type: echo $HOME then put the BASH comnmands you want to be executed in the $HOME/.bash_profile file. If there isn't one, make one ( a plain text file with /n line endings). Normally this is were you set enviroment variables, etc. Cheers. On 10/26/06, Larry Hall (Cyg

Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later

Eric, please give us the 1st line of the output of $ emacs --version. Was it downloaded using setup.exe? What OS and version are you using? Thanks. On 10/26/06, Eric Twietmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later > Eric Twietmeyer terrex.com>

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

I don't know about corkscrew, but some variation of the below which I use may be helpful to you. Regards, Darel Henman -- # Example: ## Get connect (small yet good) # wget http://www.taiyo.co.jp/~got

Problem with Cygwin Installation

Hi, I will state my problem in clear text this time. Problem: I installed Cywin in my Desktop Windows XP SP2 last year. I used gcc 3.3.3.3 to compile my code. It worked fine and I had more than 20 of my systems running well. With XP Media Edition, I downloaded Cygwin on 23rd October '06. It

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:28:37PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >>>On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >Certainly this and quoting raw email

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in .

RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01 PM: > On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to >> know if there is a command line tool to install some of this >> packages. > > setup.exe has some command-line switches you can u

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in . Care to offer a patch? The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is

Re: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if >> there is a command line tool to install some of this packages. > > setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of automate > things. > >

Re: Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: >>On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >>> Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as >>> guidelines in . Care to offer a >>

Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as > guidelines in . Care to offer a > patch The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patch

Re: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote: Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if there is a command line tool to install some of this packages. setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of automate things. Command Line Options: -D --download

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in . Care to offer a patch The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is only an HTML update, here i

Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if there is a command line tool to install some of this packages. I wonder if there is something like apt-get for cygwin or maybe is cygget. Anyhow can someone give me input into this. -- View this message in context: http://w

Re: igncr vs text mode mounts, performance vs compatibility

> Propose a patch, and I will consider it. In my opinion, it was much > easier to do igncr as an all or none option than it was to parse the first > line and discard \r on a per-file basis, not to mention that all-or-none > is easily configurable so that those of us who WANT literal \r as required

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

Jonathan Lanier wrote: If anyone could direct me to an ftp or http archive of the older Cygwin distributions, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! See: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22cygwin+time+machine%22&btnG=Search Particularly: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwi

Re: TOFU (was: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten").

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

(PCYMTNQREAIYR, TOFU, grokked; apologies - haven't been on this list for about 9 years...) >> One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute >> associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, >> possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; > > C

device drivers - general info

Hi group, I am running windows 2k with the most recent Cygwin version 1.5.21-1, just installed it last week. I wish to create a C++ program that communicates with a windows device driver (for a PCI card that interfaces with external electronics). The maker of the driver has provided a C++ librar

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

Well whether it was due to disk caching or the modification of the script the following were my results, thanks for the tip! modified version: time ./findme.bash 10.65.118. real21m38.537s user11m57.334s sys 7m33.675s original version: time ./findme.bash 10.65.118. real22m0.749s

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten").

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.2-4

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2-4, is now available for experimental use, replacing 3.2-3. Version 3.1-9 remains as the current version for now. PROMISING - for the first time since January, the completion works without duplicating t

Re: SanDisk U3

* Newton Robinson (Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:51:15 -0400) > I see your point. Has anyone created a distribution for a Flash Drive? Has > anyone created a start script that will remount for any Windows system? REM or alternatively "umount -c; umount -uc; umount -A" reg delete "hklm\software\cygnus so

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posti

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

I can certainly update the script, and will let you know how it runs... Thanks for the input, joey Brian Dessent wrote: Joey Officer wrote: for i in $( ls *.gz ); do This needlessly forks a subshell process and a /bin/ls process for no apparent reason. For better performan

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

On 10/25/06, Teggy P Veerapen <> wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out how to connect to a remote ssh server (in fact to my home pc which is hosting cygwin/sshd server) with the standard ssh client coming with cygwin and I need to go through my company proxy. ... I have done some search on t

Re: using sshd as a non-administrator: minor issues and an aliasing question

* eyalroz (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT)) > I just installed cygwin with the sshd package on a machine on which I do not > have admin privileges. The installation of cygwin went fine, and I'm having > (minor) trouble with sshd: > > 1. (minor issue) When I run ssh-host-config I get a pletho

Re: SanDisk U3

On 10/24/06, Newton Robinson wrote: I see your point. Has anyone created a distribution for a Flash Drive? Has anyone created a start script that will remount for any Windows system? I have seen a couple older posts talking about compressed executables (upx I think), but no follow-ups. I us

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

Joey Officer wrote: > for i in $( ls *.gz ); do This needlessly forks a subshell process and a /bin/ls process for no apparent reason. For better performance and readability just let the shell do the globbing: for i in *.gz; do Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to connect to a remote ssh server (in fact to my home pc which is hosting cygwin/sshd server) with the standard ssh client coming with cygwin and I need to go through my company proxy. In fact I have happily been using the cygwin/ssh client and cygwin/sshd serv

RE: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Brown > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:08 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: emacs hangs at start, or sometime later > > Eric Twietmeyer terrex.com> writes: > > > > > Wow, quite st

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

Actually, I just found the specific reference under the experimental bash release, I see the notes now. Thanks for the quick response, my script is running as intended, I can actually get some work done today ;) Thanks again, joey Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Joey Officer wrote: I have a scr

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

Larry, Thankyou! That indeed did solve my problem. I did a quick glance in the direction over at cygwin.com but did not see a specific reference to the recent bash release. Do you have a link I could read? Joey Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Joey Officer wrote: I have a script that I run, th

Re: Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: The project web page has more details: http://sourceware.org/fontconfig/ . I tried accessing this page and received the following error: Not Found The requested URL /fontconfig/ was not found on this server. Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at sourceware.org Port 80 --

Re: cygwin out of sync with version?

Joey Officer wrote: I have a script that I run, the script is: findme.bash: #!/bin/bash for i in $( ls *.gz ); do echo Searching $i zcat -c $i | grep $1 >> searchresults.txt echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next file... done

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

Ben LeBar wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was any way to run a command on cygwin either through a batch file while launching cygwin or once launched. I heard that I could use a .batchrc file to do this, so I created one containing the command I wanted executed and put it in my home director

cygwin out of sync with version?

I have a script that I run, the script is: findme.bash: #!/bin/bash for i in $( ls *.gz ); do echo Searching $i zcat -c $i | grep $1 >> searchresults.txt echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next file... done Now, this used to w

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

Ben LeBar wrote: Disregard my previous email - I figured out that i needed .bash_profile in my home directory instead of .bashrc Actually you typed .batchrc not .bashrc, which would explain it. .bash_profile get's executed when you "login" whereas .bashrc get's executed when you start bash. So,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.16-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.16-1, is available, replacing 1.15.91-4 as the current version. 1.15.1-4 remains as the previous version. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. This release requires cygwin-1.5.21 or later. A list of changes fro

Re: another cygport bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) on 10/24/2006 8:24 PM: > > Thanks for the patch; cygautoreconf() and gnome2_autoreconf() are now > fixed in CVS. How about this fix to __list_deps, too, so that the depend action works again? @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @

GCC-3.4.4-2(exp) problems ? (was Re: Debugging symbols with GDB)

Building $ cat hello.c #include int main() { printf("Hello, World!"); return 0; } gcc -g hello.c -o hello with gcc-3.4.4-2 (EXP) causes GDB ignoring the debug symbols: -

Re: Debugging symbols with GDB

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Maybe you should be specifying an explicit ".exe" when you build. On Cygwin $ gcc -g hello.c -o hello produces 'hello.exe': $ ls -lrt -rwxr-xr-x 1 Angelo Administrators8873 Oct 25 14:27 hello.exe i.e. the same result of $ gcc -g hello.c -o hello.ex

Re: Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems with CR characters

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE - redirecting to the list. According to Bruun, Peter Michael (HP C&I CME OSS CoE) on 10/25/2006 1:18 AM: > Hello Eric, > > Thanks for the thorough explanation. > > Yes, the missing handling of CRLF in `` and $() i

Re: Debugging symbols with GDB

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:15:02AM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >Try to debug the segment faults of Emacs-cvs buildings I have observed the >following on which I would ask some comment. > > >When one build the following test case with -g option > >$ cat hell

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.8.7-2

I've made a new version of lilypond available for installation. This is a major new upstream release. For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/lilypond . The project web page has more details: http://sourceware.org/lilypond/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.4.1-1

I've made a new version of fontconfig available for installation. This is new upstream release. For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/fontconfig . The project web page has more details: http://sourceware.org/fontconfig/ .

using sshd as a non-administrator: minor issues and an aliasing question

I just installed cygwin with the sshd package on a machine on which I do not have admin privileges. The installation of cygwin went fine, and I'm having (minor) trouble with sshd: 1. (minor issue) When I run ssh-host-config I get a plethora of error messages, but they seem mostly harmless, i.e. t

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

On Oct 24 11:08, Jonathan Lanier wrote: > One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute > associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, > possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; Cygwin processes are ordinary Win32 processes, just linked a

Debugging symbols with GDB

Try to debug the segment faults of Emacs-cvs buildings I have observed the following on which I would ask some comment. When one build the following test case with -g option $ cat hello.c #include int main() { printf("Hello, World!"); return 0;

Re: Running a command on cygwin launch

Disregard my previous email - I figured out that i needed .bash_profile in my home directory instead of .bashrc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Running a command on cygwin launch

Hi, I was wondering if there was any way to run a command on cygwin either through a batch file while launching cygwin or once launched. I heard that I could use a .batchrc file to do this, so I created one containing the command I wanted executed and put it in my home directory - it didn't work