Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/11/21/19:14:24
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:37:29PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 04:56 PM 11/21/2000, schwarza AT gdls DOT com wrote:
>
>>Win 95
>>Compaq Deskpro: a company machine
>>
>>Latest cygwin (Install Now on: Nov 16, 2000)
>>
>>Noticing the following things, don't know if they
>>are problems (other than with me).
>>
>>
>>[1] Under the Bash shell:
>>
>> grep '\(' <file> fails with a "grep: Unmatched ( or \("
>>
>> In a script: grep '\(' does not fail
>
>I get the same failure using bash or ash, in or out of scripts. I'm
>running the latest of bash/ash and the snapshot version of cygwin (11/20).
>Essentially, the error is "grep: Unmatched ( or \(". Removing the quotes
>solves the problem. Is this really a Cygwin issue?
No. Linux/bash gives the same error, as it should.
>>[2] In cygwin-B20 and in the current version, 'pushd', 'popd'
>> work in a Bash shell but not in a script.
>
>No problem here.
It's an ash versus bash thing. ash (aka /bin/sh) does not support pushd
or popd. Bash does.
cgf
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