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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 13:31:03 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe'
   and 'fgrep.exe'
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Max,

At 13:12 2003-02-02, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >> Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have.  Did I
> >> miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under
> >> bash?
> >
> > It depends on the package. With something like grep you cannot (?)
> > call a egrep from cmd.exe/command.com per se as it is a symbolic link
> > to grep.exe (a windows shortcut) but you could call it from bash
>
>Ah, but since it is created by setup, it is a system-cookie type symlink,
>not a windows-shortcut type symlink.

On my system both egrep and fgrep are old-style Cygwin-only symlinks. 
But some of the symlinks in my Cygwin bin directory are the new Windows 
shortcut-based symlinks.

Perhaps this mixture occurs for me because my Cygwin installation 
predates the debut of the Windows-shortcut-based symlinks. Or could it 
be because some of the symlinks are created by post-install scripts and 
are new-style and others are created by the tar code embedded in the 
Cygwin Setup.exe installer and are the old kind?


> >> bash -c /bin/egrep
> >
> > within your batch scripts.
>
>What about grep -E ? (Which is preferred anyway for maximum portability.)

(Oh?)


>Max.


Randall Schulz 


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