On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mathijs Romans wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM: > > > > | (ERROR) > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > > | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db > > | /usr/bin/diff: /Cygwin.bat: No such file or directory > > | > > | Notice the slash before Cygwin.bat. Is this normal?? Other commands > > | such as 'ls' work fine. > > > > The slash before the file name in the error message is normal - diff > > uses the file name you typed in generating its message. However, why > > the diff was unable to find the file by its absolute name is not > > normal - I couldn't reproduce it, so there is something different > > about your / than there is for mine. Running strace may shed some > > light on this, as well. > > Thanks for your quick answer. I first tried to run strace which gave > no output at all. Only then I realised there might be a windows > command 'diff' and I was running that one. So I installed diffutils > with the great Cygwin packagemanager. Then I got the strace output and > the same error. Then I restarted Cygwin, and now the error is gone! > > (OK) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > $ diff /Cygwin.bat Cygwin.ico > Files /Cygwin.bat and Cygwin.ico differ > > The combination of posix/windows is terribly confusing for me > sometimes. Thanks again for your help! > > Mathijs > > > > > | Can somebody help me? > > | > > > > We need 'cygcheck -svr' output, as a text attachment, to learn more about > > your /. Note that the above would have probably shown a different "diff" in your PATH. In general, if a command behaves in an unexpected way, check that you're using the Cygwin version of that command (by using "which diff" or, better yet, "type diff" in bash). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/