Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/08/03/18:00:42
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:46:42PM +0200, mxgl AT usa DOT net wrote:
> Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com> wrote:
> > Please use Cygwin's setup.exe to install (all of) Cygwin. Otherwise,
> > it is inappropriate to ask for help on the mailing list.
>
> You will probably allow me to use the above remark as a highly
> instructive illustration of what I would call, to put it mildly, patent
> inawareness of argumentative circularity, if you do not, I will be no less
> thankful for your quick and immediate help, with hindsight, of course, I
> should seriously have weighed alternative options first, before bothering
> You, ... it will never happen again ...
Hmm...
Anyway, on to your most recent problem.
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:36:32PM +0200, mxgl AT usa DOT net wrote:
> I have run into another problem, I have been able to pinpoint it, but cannot
> come up with a solution.
>
> When I write the line "let i=$i+1" into a scriptfile and try to execute it, I
> get the message "let: Not found",
Does the script start with "#! /bin/sh"? If so, then your problem is
that ash (i.e., /bin/sh under Cygwin) does not support "let".
> if I execute the same file as dotscript ". scriptfile", I get no error
> message,
The above works because bash is processing the script instead of ash
even if it contains the "#! /bin/sh" trigger line.
> it seems no RESERVED WORDS are recognized in scriptfile, if not run as dot
> script,
Not true, other keywords such as "for" are recognized by ash -- just not
"let" (and possibly other bash keywords).
> Is this standard behaviour of bash under cygwin, or is it a problem.
This is standard Cygwin ash behavior and IMO, is not a problem.
Jason
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