Re: ls | xargs

2013-01-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 11:39:22AM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Starting with the 2013 snapshots, the following no longer work: >> >> % /usr/bin/ls | /usr/bin/xargs /usr/bin/echo >> >> Instead of giving basically the same output as plain ls, the >> command does not finish an

Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

2013-01-03 Thread Wynfield Henman
Why are invoking 'echo' and not just simply PATH=$PATH:/newdir ? Which is faster & take less resources..I On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Aaron Schneider wrote: > I've tried this: > > export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/ > > And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mi

Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

2013-01-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Aaron Schneider! > I've tried this: > export PATH=`echo $PATH`:/newdir/ PATH=$PATH:/newdir export PATH > And PATH contains the new dir, but after closing and reopening mintty > (with cygserver stopped) changes are lost. > How to solve that? Either, change windows environment, from

Re: adding a folder to my path

2013-01-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, LMH! > I think this is a cygwin question, though it is certainly a general > linux question as well. I would like to divide up and organize some of > the apps and links in my path directories (such as /usr/local/bin) into > sub directories. If I add a folder to /usr/local/bin, that f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: bzr-fastimport-0.13.0-1

2013-01-03 Thread Ken Brown
bzr-fastimport-0.13.0-1 has been added to the Cygwin distribution. Bazaar Fast Import is a plugin providing fast loading of revision control data into Bazaar. It is designed to be used in combination with front-end programs that generate a command/data stream for it to process. Front-ends ar

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: python-fastimport-0.9.2-1

2013-01-03 Thread Ken Brown
python-fastimport-0.9.2-1 has been added to the Cygwin distribution. python-fastimport is the Python parser that was originally developed for bzr-fastimport but was extracted so that it can be used by other projects. It is currently used by bzr-fastimport and dulwich. hg-fastimport and git-re

Re: cygwin make fails when calling mkdir in Windows 7

2013-01-03 Thread Warren Young
On 1/3/2013 14:50, cpow wrote: cygwin1.dll version is 1.7.13. Is there a particularly good reason you haven't tried upgrading yet? Not that I have any specific reason to believe there is a fix in the past three versions you have skipped, but it shows a willingness to help diagnose it on your

Backspace in shell doesn't backspace after Cygwin update

2013-01-03 Thread KARR, DAVID
My hard drive on my Win7 laptop crashed last week, and I'm now trying to get everything I had reinstalled. After I reinstalled Cygwin (now at 1.7.17), I'm seeing some problems starting up Cygwin tools. I don't see anything specifically about this in the FAQ. I normally run "C:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.

cygwin make fails when calling mkdir in Windows 7

2013-01-03 Thread cpow
I'm using make package version 3.82.90-1. cygwin1.dll version is 1.7.13. Occasionally make will fail with the error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target ``, needed by ``. Stop. and are not terribly relevant but is under /cygdrive/c/... I started having this problem on upgrading to Windows

Re: Conflated ping issues

2013-01-03 Thread Aaron Schneider
On 03/01/2013 18:07, David McAllister wrote: Hi. I have three machines that all run Win 7 x64 and all have updated Cygwin installs. I thought I installed them all the same, but I'm getting two differences, both centered around the ping command. Machine 1 doesn't have /usr/bin/ping.exe, so it use

ls | xargs

2013-01-03 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello, Starting with the 2013 snapshots, the following no longer work: % /usr/bin/ls | /usr/bin/xargs /usr/bin/echo Instead of giving basically the same output as plain ls, the command does not finish and xargs remains in state. The snapshot 20121231 was ok. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Pr