Subject: here-files give "bash: 49053860: No such file or directory"
From: [email-masked] (Chuck Bogorad)

2 Apr 1997 18:35:28 -0800
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[email-masked] wrote:

> I installed cygwin32 B17.1 and I can't get here-files, "<<", to
> work in bash:
 jn> This has the honor of being the most f-a-q about gnu-win32.
 jn> You need to mkdir /tmp

i ran into it too. ;)

 jn> Maybe by b19 Cygnus will get around to mentioning this in their FAQ
 jn> in some context other than byacc :-(

or maybe someone will patch bash to use proper $TMP or $TEMP or $TMPDIR ? :) i 
might do that soon. BTW, bash-v2 has fewer such places.

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