From: d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk (David Vrabel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: bash and pipes
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 09:00:24 GMT
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lheller AT my-dejanews DOT com wrote:

>I've just started with djgpp and was surprised to find that apparently bash,
>bsh1147, does not support pipes; e.g. 'cat _bashrc | grep PS1' will fail
>with a bash ENOENT pipe error.  If bash doesn't support pipes, is there a
>work around, or have I missed something.
Bash does support pipes and they do work.

Do you have a TMPDIR variable set in your DJGPP.ENV file?  If so does
it point to a directory that exists?  Bash under DOS uses temporary
files to simulate pipes.

David.

David Vrabel  d DOT vrabel AT n-shropshire DOT ac DOT uk
A poor student (aren't they all) at:
North Shropshire College
Oswestry, Shropshire, UK