Re: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-18 Thread Harry Putnam
First off, thanks posters for the responses

Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   Since 'id' on its own might give you too many matches, it's worth mentioning
 the handy trick that (this being 'doze not linux really) the full name of the
 program is of course 'id.exe'.

 http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=id.exe

   That narrows it down sufficiently...

Yes Nice  Thank you

Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[...]


 Ah, but this will not match scripts or symlinks.  Since most executables
 live in something that ends in bin, and the package search page supports
 full perl regular expressions, you can do

 http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fid%5Cb

Also nice... both are really nice tips

Jerry D. Hedden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[...]

 coreutils

I figured something basic... but in a moment I'll explain why it
appeared to be missing.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
 
 I've just installed a very minimal cygwin.  I noticed the `id' tool is
 not present

 A little too minimal, I would say.  id is part of coreutils, which is
 a Base package, and as such, it should be part of every working
 cygwin installation.  You may want to run 'cygcheck -c' to see
 which packages are incomplete, and should be reinstalled using
 setup.exe.

Not too minimal just too dumb on my part. 
It was nothing more serious than path not getting setup to point to
C:/cygwin as `/'.

I'm not sure why that would happen, but I may have left out some basic
step in there I trashed an old install then ran a new one and
didn't really read up on the proper steps for a cygwin install.

 Also, following the directions here
 Problem reports:   http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Ahh yes sorry.  But it turns out to be operator error thru and thru. 


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RE: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-17 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
 I've just installed a very minimal cygwin.  I noticed the `id' tool is
 not present and looking on the packages page I don't see it listed
 separately so I'm guessing it is contained in a package whos name may
 not reflect its presence.
 
 Anyone know which package that might be?

coreutils


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RE: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-17 Thread Dave Korn
On 17 March 2006 20:28, Harry Putnam wrote:

 I've just installed a very minimal cygwin.  I noticed the `id' tool is
 not present and looking on the packages page I don't see it listed
 separately so I'm guessing it is contained in a package whos name may
 not reflect its presence.
 
 Anyone know which package that might be?


http://cygwin.com/packages 

  Since 'id' on its own might give you too many matches, it's worth mentioning
the handy trick that (this being 'doze not linux really) the full name of the
program is of course 'id.exe'.

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=id.exe

  That narrows it down sufficiently...


cheers,
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RE: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

 On 17 March 2006 20:28, Harry Putnam wrote:

  I've just installed a very minimal cygwin.  I noticed the `id' tool is
  not present and looking on the packages page I don't see it listed
  separately so I'm guessing it is contained in a package whos name may
  not reflect its presence.
 
  Anyone know which package that might be?

 http://cygwin.com/packages

   Since 'id' on its own might give you too many matches, it's worth
 mentioning the handy trick that (this being 'doze not linux really) the
 full name of the program is of course 'id.exe'.

 http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=id.exe

   That narrows it down sufficiently...

Ah, but this will not match scripts or symlinks.  Since most executables
live in something that ends in bin, and the package search page supports
full perl regular expressions, you can do

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fid%5Cb

(which corresponds to a search string bin/id\b, i.e., a program named
id with no more letters after that, in a directory that ends in bin).
In case of id the results are identical, but if you try your approach
with, for example, vi, you'll find that it doesn't work.
HTH,
Igor
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Re: Find tool contained in unknown pkg

2006-03-17 Thread Eric Blake
 I've just installed a very minimal cygwin.  I noticed the `id' tool is
 not present

A little too minimal, I would say.  id is part of coreutils, which is
a Base package, and as such, it should be part of every working
cygwin installation.  You may want to run 'cygcheck -c' to see
which packages are incomplete, and should be reinstalled using
setup.exe.

Also, following the directions here
 Problem reports:   http://cygwin.com/problems.html

about attaching 'cygcheck -svr' as a text attachment to your
email might help us spot anything else suspicious in your
installation.

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volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer

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