From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: here-files give "bash: 49053860: No such file or directory" 1 Apr 1997 22:48:04 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33419FB7.1650.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199704011831.AA15003@metronet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Original-To: Tye McQueen Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Tye McQueen wrote: > > I installed cygwin32 B17.1 and I can't get here-files, "<<", to > work in bash: > > C:\> bash > bash$ cat >conftest.c > This works. > ^Z[CR] > bash$ cat conftest.c > This works. > bash$ cat >conftest.c < > This doesn't. > > [CTRL-D]bash: 49054596: No such file or directory. > bash$ cat conftest.c > bash$ > > The error message always starts with `basename $0`. I have > /bin/sh.exe and bash can find itself in the PATH since the > commands "/bin/sh", "/bin/sh.exe", "bash", "bash.exe" all run > another copy of bash [adding "/bin" to PATH doesn't help]. > > Even running bash so $0 ends up as > "//c/etm/cygnus/h-i386-cygwin32/bin/bash.exe" doesn't help it > find itself. > > Any clues appreciated. This has the honor of being the most f-a-q about gnu-win32. You need to mkdir /tmp Maybe by b19 Cygnus will get around to mentioning this in their FAQ in some context other than byacc :-( -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".