From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: 19.1 bash access violation 29 Apr 1998 07:07:45 -0700 Sender: root AT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19980428132959.14462.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com To: Ray Fergerson , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I tested your command using both MSDOS and bash and got the expected results. I am using NT 3.51 FAT and Sergey's newest update with Extended Attributes off. See the information below my signature. ---Ray Fergerson wrote: > > I'm trying to run bash from the nt command shell and am getting an access > violation. The command is > > c:\projects> bash -c "echo $(cat foo.txt)" > > I also get an access violation on > > c:\projects> bash -c "echo $(foo)" > > where foo does not exist. > > Both of these commands produce the expected output if issued from bash itself. > > The above commands do nothing useful but are simply reduced version of my real > command that does accomplish something. What I really want to do is to > increment a counter in a file. The way I have come up with to do this is > > echo $(($(cat myfile)+1)) > myfile > > This works from bash but not when I pass it in as a command string. Is there an > easier way to do this? > > Ray - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. -------------------- IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE ------------------------ You should get the following to update your cygwinb19 package: Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package which contains an updated cygwinb19.dll. (Yes, even if you've already downloaded the b19.1 update from the Cygnus Site). Mumit Khan's compilation of EGCS for the cygwinb19.dll; especially if your using the C++ compiler. The current version of the compiler that comes with the tools have lots of problems that have been fixed with the EGCS version. This is a drop-in replacement for the GCC toolset. URL's are listed above. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".