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 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: What is this Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:33:56 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Phil Betts" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i86BYSMT014947 >Brian Dessent wrote: >"Mirko Tebaldi (Indirizzo Pubblico)" wrote: >> >> What is /bin/test.exe ? >> >> i have a script that uses that, but it has not output and no --help >> or --usage !!! >Have you considered "man test"? FWIW, this should always be the FIRST thing one tries (or "info test"). It's a REALLY bad idea to execute a program to try to find out what it does. Suppose that "test" was an acronym for "Trash Entire System Thoroughly", and suppose that it ignored the command line. Oops! There goes your C: drive! The --help options to commands should only be used when you already know what the command does, but are unsure what parameters it takes. Here endeth the lesson. -- Phil Betts ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/