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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:32:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: tail/head not working with a pseudoterminal
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> On Nov 25 16:03, Costin Caraivan wrote:
...
>> Also head fails with:
>> Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
>> bash: /cygdrive/c/apps/activeperl/bin/head: /usr/bin/perl: bad
>> interpreter: Permission denied
>
> You're running the wrong head command.  This is some activestate perl
> script, not the Cygwin head tool from coreutils.  Change your $PATH
> to find the Cygwin apps first.

It's HEAD from lwp-request:
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-6.03/bin/lwp-request

Found unfortunately due to case-insensitive NTFS.

Costin, try /usr/bin/head explicitly.

Csaba
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