Message-Id: <200006081853.OAA20378@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: "Parker, Ron" To: mvdv AT bigfoot DOT com, Cygwin Subject: RE: Permissions Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:49:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01BFD17A.6F917172" ------_=_NextPart_000_01BFD17A.6F917172 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > why does this work OK > > /usr/bin > bash-2.04$ sed -n 'p' /usr/info/time.info > > < ... output omitted .... > > > but this not work: > > bash-2.04$ for FI in `ls /usr/info/*.info`; do sed -n 'p' $FI; done > sed: can't read /usr/info/autoconf.info: No such file or directory It must be something in your configuration. It runs just fine on my machine. To quote Ernie, "The output from cygcheck -s -v -r might be useful in this case." Just a note on your script fragment. the 'ls' is not needed. The following will work as well: for FI in /usr/info/*.info; do sed -n 'p' $FI; done ------_=_NextPart_000_01BFD17A.6F917172 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com ------_=_NextPart_000_01BFD17A.6F917172--