Re: Newline missing in csh

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > > > cat "/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control > > Panel/International/sLanguage" works fine in bash > > but if I switch to csh I fail to get a newline when reading the registry. > > >

Pin package version

Hi, I could not find an answer to this: is it possible to pin a package version with the Cygwin installer? Switching manually to keep on every update is error prone. Kind regards robert -- [guy, jim].each {|him| remember.him do |as, often| as.you_can - without end}

Re: cygwin bash script suddenly can't find ls, grep

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:54 PM, LMH lmh_users-gro...@molconn.com wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * LMH (Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:30:07 -0400) Good Lord, I guess I wasn't thinking very clearly trying to use PATH as a variable for something else. I changed to, FILE_DIR=$(ls -d

Re: Updated: bash-4.1.14-7

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: A new release of bash, 4.1.14-7, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 4.1.13-6. ... Thank you Eric for the fast updates and staying on top of all the security warnings coming in!

gem command broken on Cygwin 64 with Ruby 2.0.0p481

Hi folks, did someone of you experience this as well? $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 arnie 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin $ ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08) [x86_64-cygwin] $ gem --version 2.4.1 $ gem list -l *** LOCAL GEMS *** io-console (0.4.2) json (1.8.1) minitest

Re: gem command broken on Cygwin 64 with Ruby 2.0.0p481

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Robert Klemme shortcut...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, did someone of you experience this as well? $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 arnie 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin $ ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08) [x86_64-cygwin] $ gem

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: Robert Klemme wrote: So it could be an OS feature but I could not find any documentation about this. And it is still totally unclear to me what the criterion might be as bash suffers from this but all other shells do not. This is weird

Re: bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

Hi, Matthew Blakley pointed out to me that he noticed that under Windows 7 several processes have the dot added - not only Cygwin processes. I checked with ProcessExplorer and indeed PATH of chrome.exe ends with ;.;. So it could be an OS feature but I could not find any documentation about this.

bash adds dot to $PATH (was: Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from)

Folks, sorry for the delay, I was sick in the meantime. Now, I try to summarize all my finding in the hopes that bash package maintainer can pick up from here. When starting a terminal on my Windows 7 64 bit system $PATH contains a dot at the end. The dot is not present in my Windows environment

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

Thanks to all who helped so far! On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote: So far, I'm not convinced that issue is Cygwin-specific. The fact that it doesn't manifest in Windows is actually because of it's (windows) native ignorance for this matter. I sent a

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:32 PM, David Boyce d...@boyski.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Robert Klemme shortcut...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anybody make sense of that? I can share the complete log with individuals if it helps. Nobody? I haven't read the whole backthread

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu wrote: As others have said, cygwin does not add . to the path itself. It must be something in your .bash_profile, .bashrc, or other script sourced from them. Going through the output of your login with tracing enabled, as

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/19/2014 12:16 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: The dot is already in the variable before bash even modifies it. So that means you need to look in your Windows environment to understand where this comes from. I did look in windows

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Robert Klemme shortcut...@googlemail.com wrote: Can anybody make sense of that? I can share the complete log with individuals if it helps. Nobody? Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com

$PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

Hi, in cygwin64 on Win 7 64 bit I find . in $PATH: $ echo $PATH | tr : \\n | egrep '^\.$' . However, I was not able to detect where this came from. It's neither in the Windows system environment variables nor in the user environment variables - as you can also see on a cmd prompt:

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Robert, On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: Hi, in cygwin64 on Win 7 64 bit I find . in $PATH: $ echo $PATH | tr : \\n | egrep '^\.$' . However, I was not able to detect where this came from. It's neither

Re: $PATH contains dot but unclear where it comes from

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Robert Klemme! Hello Andrey! I should have mentioned that I did just that - to no avail. $ echo exit | bash --login -i -x 2|log $ egrep -n 'PATH=(.:|.*:\.($|:))' log | head 1:+ PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr

Re: Clearing the buffer after quitting LESS, MAN, VIM etc.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Dawid Ferenczy feren...@volny.cz wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin.com writes: Problems like that interfere with my sleep so it's best to get them out of the way before I go to bed. that's the difference between real

Re: getting windows ntfs file info

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jon Retting j...@retting.com wrote: Hello, Typed up this one liner function for getting a files actual windows details/properties information. I needed a tertiary way to compare executable/drivers, so a version number from windows seemed like a viable

Win 7 claims setup-x86_64.exe doesn't work any more - but it does

Folks, since the last update of my cygwin 64 installer during the execution I get a Windows pop up indicating that the program does not work any more. Funny thing is: it does. I just click cancel and the installation proceeds normally. It even happens if I start the program and click cancel on

Re: Win 7 claims setup-x86_64.exe doesn't work any more - but it does

Hi Corinna, On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 28 10:24, Robert Klemme wrote: since the last update of my cygwin 64 installer during the execution I get a Windows pop up indicating that the program does not work any more. Funny thing is: it does. I just click

Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ralph Siegler wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: I'd suggest to use ssh instead. Telnet is inherently unsecure and ssh is a wonderful replacement. but telnet is an invaluable tool for command line troubleshooting tcp network connectivity issues to SMTP, HTTP

Re: transfering cygwin configuration from win XP to win 7

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Chris Olin ch...@chrisolin.com wrote: I recently did this at work by backing up the C:\cygwin directory, my Windows user profile directory and manually creating the directory path C:\cygwin\etc\setup, then copying C:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db to the new

Re: 1.7.25: problem with the cd command in ksh

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 06:44:56PM +0200, Francis ANDRE wrote: Le 07/10/2013 11:54, Andrey Repin a ?crit : Can I have a official statement from Cygwin about this? ie that bash is supporting MS-DOX path by accident and ksh won't and

Re: 1.7.25: problem with the cd command in ksh

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Francis ANDRE francis.an...@easynet.fr wrote: Hi Robert The problem here is that the string of the target directory is computed by another tool -- Mercurial in this case -- and that Mercurial returns a absolute windows style path as

Re: 1.7.25: problem with the cd command in ksh

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Francis ANDRE francis.andre.kampb...@orange.fr wrote: Hi Cygwin List I have a problem with the cd command in a ksh script. In the log below, there is this error: /make/scripts/webrev.ksh[2899]: cd:

Re: About ssh

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm able to perform: % ssh localhost From cygwing. But I'm unable to perform: % ssh IP_addr I always get: -- ssh: connect to host 192.168.2.103 port 22: Connection timed out -- The client works

Re: cygpath -m behaviour change

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, David Griffiths david.griffi...@gmail.com wrote: But why are you even using cygpath to try and determine the containing directory? 'dirname' does that task, in a much more portable manner, and without having to worry about whether 'file/..' can be abused in

Re: cygpath -m behaviour change

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:56 AM, David Griffiths david.griffi...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's exactly right, assuming that 'boo' doesn't exist. Hi, it happens even if boo does exist. To put it in context, the script in question was attempting to determine the current directory:

Re: svn 1.7.10-1 on x86_64 does not work

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org wrote: On 8/27/2013 9:04 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: $ svn --version /usr/bin/svn.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Check that you have libneon27 installed

svn 1.7.10-1 on x86_64 does not work

Hi folks, even obtaining the version fails with this: $ svn --version /usr/bin/svn.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I have a pretty fresh installation (only selected the older version of svn) and am not aware of anything I

1.7.7: Postinstall issue with boxes.sh

Hi, there seems to be a small glitch with the grep pattern. I have attached the error log and a patch for file /etc/postinstall/boxes.sh. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ setup.log.full Description: Binary data

dash vs. ash?

All, I just notice that there is dash in cygwin 1.7 but there is also ash. What would be the reason to switch from ash to dash? From what I am finding on the web it seems, dash was basically ash code modernized. So it seems when on 1.7 dash would be the preferred one. Any insight? Kind regards

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

Corinna, thanks for your feedback! 2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: On Mar 12 17:44, Robert Klemme wrote: The second flock does not start the command as I expect it to be. I am referring to the man page of flock which says this about option -w: Fail  (with an exit code

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

Hi again, 2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: On Mar 12 15:40, Robert Klemme wrote: Any ideas?  Am I doing something wrong? On second thought, maybe I don't understand what you're expecting. Running the testcase on a Linux box I get this: Linux calimero 2.6.[etc] -rw-r

Re: Problem getting flock with timeout to work

2009/3/12 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com: On second thought, maybe I don't understand what you're expecting. Running the testcase on a Linux box I get this: Linux calimero 2.6.[etc] -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 0 Mar 12 16:48 lock timeout 10 started 1 3644 Thu Mar 12 16:48:48

Re: Ruby and OpenSSL: no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError)

2008/10/18 Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm getting this error on Cygwin when trying to run this tiny little Rails app: ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:253:in `require_frameworks': no such file to load -- openssl (RuntimeError) I have both the openssl and

ruby-1.8.6-p114-1: IRB cannot use readline any more

Hi, after upgrading to this new version of Ruby readline does not seem to work in IRB any more. I tried using parameter --readline as well as various combinations of packages readline, libreadline5 and libreadline6 but to no avail. Switching back to the previous version (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13

Re: ruby-1.8.6-p114-1: IRB cannot use readline any more

2008/5/21 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On May 21 09:51, Robert Klemme wrote: after upgrading to this new version of Ruby readline does not seem to work in IRB any more. I tried using parameter --readline as well as various combinations of packages readline, libreadline5