Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:37:02PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:47:27PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Sorry...I didn't mean to embarrass you. I was hoping for something a >>little more juicy, I guess--it's been a slow soggy shut-in sort of day >>(and week) out he

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 17:37 2002-12-19, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:47:27PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Sorry...I didn't mean to embarrass you. I was hoping for something a >little more juicy, I guess--it's been a slow soggy shut-in sort of day >(and week) out here... Rain, rai

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:47:27PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Sorry...I didn't mean to embarrass you. I was hoping for something a >little more juicy, I guess--it's been a slow soggy shut-in sort of day >(and week) out here... Rain, rain and more rain. Then it rains. For the record, I actu

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Pierre, Sorry...I didn't mean to embarrass you. I was hoping for something a little more juicy, I guess--it's been a slow soggy shut-in sort of day (and week) out here... Rain, rain and more rain. Then it rains. Randall Schulz At 15:39 2002-12-19, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 03:24 PM 12/19/20

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 03:24 PM 12/19/2002 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >Information please! What was the problem? A stupid bug of mine, mixing up variable names, with non-deterministic results. It's surprising that it took so long to emerge, but before the buggy code was put in, grep -r didn't work at all on Win9

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Yo, Pierre! Buddy! Information please! What was the problem? Inquiring technominds want to know! Randall Schulz At 15:19 2002-12-19, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 04:21 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: >If I type: >$ grep -e hello -r . >I get: >grep: .: File exists It's a pro

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 04:21 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, Mark Blackburn wrote: >If I type: >$ grep -e hello -r . >I get: >grep: .: File exists It's a problem on Win9x only, patch is on the way. Thanks for the report. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:33:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Not likely. I believe this package is provided by Chris Faylor. >If I'm right, I know he builds everything on Linux with a cross compiler. >But you could be right about this being a 9x issue. Dunno. Can't >tell. It could also

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mark, I cannot reproduce your problem, but perhaps it's an interaction with FAT file systems and Windows '98? I have Windows 2K Pro and only one FAT volume, but the command you gave works fine for me on both my NTFS and my FAT volumes. There's also the possibility of this being an issue with yo

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:52:28 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Works fine here but I'm on W2K. Does 'grep -r -e hello .' or >'grep -r hello .' work? > > No and

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

2002-12-19 Thread Shankar Unni
Mark Blackburn wrote: If I type: $ grep -e hello -r . I get: grep: .: File exists and grep doesn't search the contents of any files Data point: doesn't happen with the stock grep 2.5-1 on 1.3.17-1 on WinXP Pro SP1 (everything's the same except the OS). Works fine here. -- Unsubscribe

Re: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread Mark Blackburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine here but I'm on W2K. Does 'grep -r -e hello .' or 'grep -r hello .' work? No and No. Same result as before. Maybe compiling on Win98 makes some sort of difference? I assume it was originally compiled on W2K. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

RE: Grep says file exists and then doesn't grep it

2002-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Works fine here but I'm on W2K. Does 'grep -r -e hello .' or 'grep -r hello .' work? Larry Original Message: - From: Mark Blackburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:21:28 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it If I type: