X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4577957C.7020908@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:15:56 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with cd in Cygwin scripts References: <45779074 DOT 5080607 AT vhdl DOT org> In-Reply-To: <45779074.5080607@vhdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 David Bishop wrote: > Last night I updated Cygwin, and I've had problems with my scripts > afterwards. I tried on the web and found some similar issues from 2004, > but with no resolutions. > > I am running: > > uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 davesxp 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin > > I can manually use the "cd" command without problems, but when I try to > use it in a script, I just get: > : No such file or directory > > The top of the script that I am trying to run looks like this: > > #!/bin/sh > # > rm -f putfile > echo "put supernova.html" > putfile > # Check the sn2006 directory > cd sn2006 > down=0 > ..... > cd ../sn2005 > > Manually, all of these cd commands work, but when I put them in a script > I only get errors. I run the script with: > . /home/dave/scripts/buildput > > Any ideas? > Sure. First, don't send more than one copy of your report to the list. Second, read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here: That will give us something to go on. Two other things to try before going through all that: 1. Reboot. 2. Make sure /bin/sh.exe and /bin/bash.exe are the same size and date. If they aren't, copy /bin/bash.exe to /bin/sh.exe and try your script again. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/