Re: -a $HOME/.bashrc and -a ~/.bashrc produce different results

On 5/19/2011 3:54 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: > > Hi all, > > For most uses, $HOME and ~ produce identical results. For example, ls > $HOME > or ls ~ are the same. But the following script fails: > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in "$HOME/.bashrc" "~/.bashrc" ; do > echo $i > if [ -a "$i" ]; then >

Re: CYGWIN

On 5/6/2011 10:27 AM, rdick...@cinci.rr.com wrote: > > Technical assistance required - TIA > > I'm presently a software packager taking applications from XP and > porting them/repackaging them > to W7 - 64-bit. The current version on site is 1.5.12 and I believe > the latest is 1.7.9-1. > > In

Re: Windows tools can access /usr/share but not /usr/lib

On 4/8/2011 9:18 AM, Marc Girod wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: > > > > > You should use the cygpath utility to translate Cygwin paths to > > Windows paths, rather than just changing slashes and prefixing with > > C:\cygwin. Apart from everything else, Cygwin might be installed > > somewhere other than

Re: unable to remap to same address as parent - despite rebaseall

On 4/2/2011 7:45 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm on Windows 7 and I'm getting: > > fatal error - unable to remap > \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\bcrypt-ruby-2.1.4\lib\bcrypt_ext.so > to same address as parent: > > http://pastie.org/1747060 > > I tried > http://www.mylifestartingup.

Re: IFS not fixing carriage returns

On 3/25/2011 11:35 AM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > > I have tried Googling for info on this, but there are a lot of false > hits ... > > [...] > > Although it's not documented in "man bash" on the latest Cygwin, I did > find "set -o igncr" and it seems to work well. > > But I'm just curious about why my

Re: git over ssh

On 12/27/2010 9:48 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: > Hi, > I am trying again to switch from 1.5 to 1.7 and I see that the git > over ssh issue is still there. Here is what I get: > > $ git pull > remote: Counting objects: 1521, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (351/351), done. > Receiving objects

Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe?

On 12/7/2010 2:03 PM, Steven Lefevre wrote: > [...] > I had tried the -M option, but got no window. Perhaps there's another > problem that's causing my symptoms. > > I'm using Windows Vista. I have a shortcut on the desktop that > launches setup.exe. I've tried both the -M and --help switches, with

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

On 12/2/2010 2:28 PM, Heath Kehoe wrote: > [...] > Also, the OP said the problem was happening on pipelines like 'tail | grep'. > Neither tail nor grep muck with tty settings (that I know of), so if the tty > is ending up with echo disabled, it's got to be the shell leaving it that > way. Perhap

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > orbita wrote: >> hi, >> I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a >> tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I >> can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. >> >> All I

Re: unable to type command into Cygwin after running 'tail'

On 12/1/2010 8:53 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > orbita wrote: >> hi, >> I've been experiencing this problem for quite some time. Whenever I do a >> tail (eg. "tail -f abc.txt | grep abc"), and then Ctrl-C to exit the tail, I >> can't type in new commands to the command prompt anymore. >> >> All I

Re: 1.5.25 install

On 11/9/2010 11:43 AM, SZABO Gergely wrote: > Hello, > > is there a site somewhere on the internet to install the last stable version > of > Cygwin (1.5.x)? > > We ran into the git clone over git/ssh problem today. The mailing list > indicates > no solution. Same with the fork-performance issue.

Re: [local fix] Executable bit check

On 11/4/2010 7:36 PM, Illia Bobyr wrote: > [...] > > I'm looking at git-svn tests and they assume that "chmod -x abc&& test > ! -x abc". And it does not hold on Cygwin. > > [...] Thanks to Eric Blake and Larry Hall I found a workaround for my git

Re: Executable bit check

On 11/5/2010 11:56 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > [...] > On Linux: > > $ setfacl -m mask:rwx d/f > $ getfacl d/f > # file: d/f > # owner: eblake > # group: eblake > user::rw- > user:dummy:rwx > group::rw- > mask::rwx > other::r-- > > $ chmod -x d/f > $ getfacl d/f > # file: d/f > # owner: eblake > # grou

Re: Executable bit check

On 11/4/2010 8:14 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > [...] What does 'getfacl abc' say? >> > >>> $ getfacl abc >>> # file: abc >>> # owner: ibobyr >>> # group: Domain Users >>> user::rw- >>> group::r-- >>> group:SYSTEM:rwx >>> group:Administrators:rwx >>> group:Users:r-x >>> mask:rwx >>> other:r

Executable bit check

bc". And it does not hold on Cygwin. Accidentally I posted this on the cygwin-developers mailing list and already got the following reply (along with my answer): On 11/04/2010 05:12 PM, Illia Bobyr wrote: > On 11/4/2010 5:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 11/04/2010 03:57 PM, Illia B