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BUG: Executables for "grep" package installed inconsistently
- From: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 15:12:42 -0700
- Subject: BUG: Executables for "grep" package installed inconsistently
- Reply-to: martin at xemacs dot org
I work on software that wants to be buildable by Cygwin. It looks for
a /bin/egrep.exe, but can't find it. Of course the system
administrator can easily add a symlink
/usr/bin/egrep.exe -> grep.exe
(It is possible that this won't work because egrep is one of those
evil programs that looks at $0... I haven't investigated that
possibility.)
$ bunzip2 < grep-2.5-1.tar.bz2 | tar tvf - | grep usr/bin
drwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-03-20 21:16:15 usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-03-20 21:16:15 usr/bin/egrep -> grep
lrwxrwxrwx cgf/group 0 2002-03-20 21:16:15 usr/bin/fgrep -> grep
-rwxrwxrwx cgf/group 85504 2002-03-20 21:16:15 usr/bin/grep.exe
If grep is installed as "grep.exe", then egrep should be installed as
"egrep.exe". Ditto for fgrep.
Martin
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