Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:32:13 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: gawk: system() or piping does not work due to no /bin/sh Message-ID: <20000915113212.B4739@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from richard.atterer@gulp.de on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:37:07AM +0200 On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: >Hello, > >I encountered this problem: Executing other programs from within gawk did >not seem to work, no matter whether you tried it through a pipe or with >system(). Examples: > >gawk 'BEGIN{system("echo foobar")}' >gawk 'BEGIN{while(("echo foobar"|getline l) >= 1) print l}' > >It turns out this is because /bin/sh doesn't exist, an "ln -s bash.exe sh" >in /bin solved the problem. The lack of /bin/sh means that your installation is corrupted. >I installed using setup.exe with downloaded tarballs already present in the >local directory. It should be noted that setup crashed towards the end the >first time I ran it (IIRC, before it tried to create the menu entries), but >it didn't crash on subsequent runs. Sorry for not being able to give more >detailed information about the crash. If setup crashed, that explains the problem. If you can't provide any details then this will have to remain a mystery, I guess. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com