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 From: "linda w \(cyg\)" To: Subject: >/dev/stderr broken in /bin/sh?, makewhatis unhappy, & apropos confused, or just me? Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:18:59 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c2e6b3$cb1aa250$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 I normally use bash and this works in bash: echo "hello stderr" >/dev/stderr echo "hello stdout" >/dev/stdout But in /bin/sh: $ echo hello stderr >/dev/stderr cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent $ echo hello stdout >/dev/stdout cannot create /dev/stdout: directory nonexistent $ --- I'm guessing this isn't supposed to work this way? "makewhatis -v" doesn't like seem to like it: law> makewhatis -v /usr/sbin/makewhatis: cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent I invoked the -v when a simple "makewhatis" yielded "cd: can't cd to /cygdrive/c/Documents" Apropos is a little confused about one of it's lines. Does anyone else get garbage on this: apropos options|wc -l|grep "^SYN" "wc" gives this: law> apropos options|grep "^SYN"|wc 1 2332 13924 That's one heck of a long line. Do I just have some junk somewhere? I could attach it, but I don't want to unnecessarily send all that junk out if it's easily reproducible. linda -- 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/