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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:08:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student)" <tyson AT umr DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: fsplit problems
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote:

> I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat
> Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error:
>
> ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: "(" unexpected
>
> after typing:
>
> ./fsplit
>
> at the prompt (i.e. there was no "(" typed).  It also gives the same
> error when I try using the fsplit executable to split a file.  Your help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Tyson Bourbina

Tyson,

You haven't really given much information to go on here, but I can make a
few guesses:
1) Cygwin is not binary-compatible with Linux, so I'm assuming fsplit is
not a binary, but rather a shell script.
2) On Linux, /bin/sh is usually bash.  Not so on Cygwin (/bin/sh is ash).
The script could be bash-specific.  Try changing the first line of fsplit
from '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' and see if it helps.
	Igor
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