Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030202154555.02e2eed8@junk> X-Sender: crane AT storm DOT ca@junk Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:46:20 -0500 To: From: "G. Ken Holman" Subject: Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe' Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote: > >I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was > >included. > >Sigh. I apologize for having taken your time with this to warrant such an exclamation. I was citing my previous experience with Cygwin where I had utilized an "exe" and created ".bat" files that pointed to it. After installing the new version my batch files stopped working. > >I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday and > >ensured that I included the "grep" package. > > > >I went to use "egrep.exe" and found it wasn't installed. I did find an > >egrep.1 but it just points to grep. > >egrep and fgrep are symbolic links to grep.exe. Both work properly when >invoked from bash. I just checked. Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash? Could there be a FAQ that says "where is the .exe I'm expecting?" ... when not running in bash? I did a search on the FAQ TOC for .exe and didn't find anything. I honestly tried to solve this without burdening the list with another question, and was basing my question on my prior experience with the Cygwin collection. > >p.s. http://cygwin.com/bugs.html points to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and > >says where *not* to send bugs, but not where bugs should be sent for > >problems like this ... I would have thought that would be a FAQ: "which > >bugs (by example) go to which mail lists?" > >The cygwin mailing list says that it is for "just about all things >cygwin" with "two exceptions". > >Is grep, egrep, or fgrep listed as one of the two exceptions? I now see the word "bugs" in the description that I had missed earlier. Sorry for my oversight. Again, I apologize that I have taken your time; I was quite sincere in my attempts to help the project. ................ Ken -- Upcoming hands-on in-depth Europe: February 17-21, 2003 XSLT/XPath and/or XSL-FO North America: June 16-20, 2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman AT CraneSoftwrights DOT com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/z/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-10-1 Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/z/bc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/