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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:17:02 +0100
From: Cliff Hones <cliff AT hones DOT org DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: egrep disappeared?
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zzapper wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:53:43 -0700,  wrote:
> 
> 
>>zzapper wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Since last downloads (basefiles?) egrep has disappeared.
>>>egrep is just an alias or link to grep.exe of course.
>>>
>>>I have added my own alias as a work around.
>>
>>Looks fine to me: <http://cygwin.com/packages/grep/grep-2.5-1>.
>>
>>Brian
> 
> Funny thing "which" finds egrep in /usr/bin /bin etc
> they are also in my path.
> 
> bash: /usr/bin/egrep: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Well, there's your answer - it's /bin/sh which you have missing, not egrep.
In Cygwin egrep is a shell script rather than a symlink.  I believe there
was a window during the recent changeover of /bin/sh from ash to bash where
the update could cause /bin/sh to be deleted.  Just copy /usr/bin/bash to
/usr/bin/sh and all should be well.

-- Cliff

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