In the future, please post to the Cygwin mailing list instead of sending private email so others can benefit too. This is especially true after an email such as the following: On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:46:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please use Cygwin's setup.exe to install (all of) Cygwin. Otherwise, > > it is inappropriate to ask for help on the mailing list. > > You will probably allow me to use the above remark as a highly > instructive illustration of what I would call, to put it mildly, patent > inawareness of argumentative circularity, if you do not, I will be no less > thankful for your quick and immediate help, with hindsight, of course, I > should seriously have weighed alternative options first, before bothering > You, ... it will never happen again ... Hmm... Anyway, on to your most recent problem. On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:36:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have run into another problem, I have been able to pinpoint it, but cannot > come up with a solution. > > When I write the line "let i=$i+1" into a scriptfile and try to execute it, I > get the message "let: Not found", Does the script start with "#! /bin/sh"? If so, then your problem is that ash (i.e., /bin/sh under Cygwin) does not support "let". > if I execute the same file as dotscript ". scriptfile", I get no error > message, The above works because bash is processing the script instead of ash even if it contains the "#! /bin/sh" trigger line. > it seems no RESERVED WORDS are recognized in scriptfile, if not run as dot > script, Not true, other keywords such as "for" are recognized by ash -- just not "let" (and possibly other bash keywords). > Is this standard behaviour of bash under cygwin, or is it a problem. This is standard Cygwin ash behavior and IMO, is not a problem. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: 732.264.8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: 732.264.8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
