Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001f01c2be18$846ca380$25747ad5@workstation1> From: "Scott Taylor" To: "Cygwin" References: <004301c2bd8f$114c9600$5e2b7ad5@workstation1> <010601c2bd90$cc22fae0$78d96f83@POMELLO> <00d701c2bdb0$af356100$5e2b7ad5@workstation1> <021501c2bdb3$02afda70$78d96f83@POMELLO> <002301c2bdfc$096027a0$d9297bd5@workstation1> <00ed01c2be0d$93d72d00$d9297bd5@workstation1> Subject: Re: Installation Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:06:41 -0000 Organization: 4i dotCom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 OK got locate working, but there seems to be something wrong in general with calling commands. "ls -l" works fine but... "ls -l | more" does not Also, I wanted to install cygipc but it gives me the following: $ tar -C/ -xjf cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 tar (child): cygipc.1.13-2.tar.bz2: cannot open: no such file or directory tar (child): error not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The file "tar.exe" is in my bin directory...why can't it see it? Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Markebo" To: Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Installation > / "Scott Taylor" wrote: > | In the /bin directory are all the bash commands that you use in a typical > | unix shell...correct? Then why can I use a command like "ls -l" and not > | "locate" which both reside in /bin? > | > [...] > | > | $ man ls > | BASH: man: command not found > > have you installed the man-package? > > | > | $ locate cygwin.bat > | locate: /usr/var/locatedb: no such file or directory > > locate needa its database to be built before running, I think it is > updatedb that does this.. To do a quick search now, you can use find. > > > | Does this make sense now? > > Yep :-) > > /Andy > > | > | Scott > | > -- > The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/