Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42D3C2CE.9070207@hones.org.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:02 +0100 From: Cliff Hones User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zzapper CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: egrep disappeared? References: <7g07d1h7uoi0mfdi2g5pcoot95ud2ua0j0@4ax.com> <42D3AF47.E74B0D9D@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-IsSubscribed: yes zzapper wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:53:43 -0700, wrote: > > >>zzapper wrote: >> >> >>>Since last downloads (basefiles?) egrep has disappeared. >>>egrep is just an alias or link to grep.exe of course. >>> >>>I have added my own alias as a work around. >> >>Looks fine to me: . >> >>Brian > > Funny thing "which" finds egrep in /usr/bin /bin etc > they are also in my path. > > bash: /usr/bin/egrep: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Well, there's your answer - it's /bin/sh which you have missing, not egrep. In Cygwin egrep is a shell script rather than a symlink. I believe there was a window during the recent changeover of /bin/sh from ash to bash where the update could cause /bin/sh to be deleted. Just copy /usr/bin/bash to /usr/bin/sh and all should be well. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/