Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Randall R Schulz wrote: > Max, > > At 13:12 2003-02-02, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Elfyn McBratney wrote: Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash? >>> >>> It depends on the package. With someth

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Max, At 13:12 2003-02-02, Max Bowsher wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I >> miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under >> bash? > > It depends on the package. With something like grep you cannot (?) > call a egr

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: >> Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I >> miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under >> bash? > > It depends on the package. With something like grep you cannot (?) > call a egrep from cmd.exe/command.com per se as it is a s

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Max Bowsher
G. Ken Holman wrote: > At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote: >>> I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe >>> utility was included. >> >> Sigh. > > I apologize for having tak

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I miss a > documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash? It depends on the package. With something like grep you cannot (?) call a egrep from cmd.exe/command.com per se as it is a symbolic link to grep.exe (a windo

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread G. Ken Holman
At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote: >I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was >included. Sigh. I apologize for having taken your time with this to warrant such a

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday and > ensured that I included the "grep" package. > > I went to use "egrep.exe" and found it wasn't installed. I did find an > egrep.1 but it just points to grep. The file you are loking for, egrep.exe is no longer in the packg

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ken, At 12:05 2003-02-02, G. Ken Holman wrote: Hi folks, I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was included. "B" as in beta? b17, b18... One of those? Ancient history and truly the good old days of Cygnus / Cygwin. I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replac

Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

2003-02-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote: >I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was >included. Sigh. >I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday and >ensured that I included the "grep" package. > >I went to use "egr