Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/02/15:47:33
At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> 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 an
exclamation. I was citing my previous experience with Cygwin where I had
utilized an "exe" and created ".bat" files that pointed to it. After
installing the new version my batch files stopped working.
> >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.
>
>egrep and fgrep are symbolic links to grep.exe. Both work properly when
>invoked from bash. I just checked.
Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I miss a
documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash?
Could there be a FAQ that says "where is the .exe I'm expecting?" ... when
not running in bash? I did a search on the FAQ TOC for .exe and didn't
find anything.
I honestly tried to solve this without burdening the list with another
question, and was basing my question on my prior experience with the Cygwin
collection.
> >p.s. http://cygwin.com/bugs.html points to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and
> >says where *not* to send bugs, but not where bugs should be sent for
> >problems like this ... I would have thought that would be a FAQ: "which
> >bugs (by example) go to which mail lists?"
>
>The cygwin mailing list says that it is for "just about all things
>cygwin" with "two exceptions".
>
>Is grep, egrep, or fgrep listed as one of the two exceptions?
I now see the word "bugs" in the description that I had missed
earlier. Sorry for my oversight.
Again, I apologize that I have taken your time; I was quite sincere in my
attempts to help the project.
................ Ken
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