Re: Setup 2.249.2.5, Package 'grep' 2.5-1, missing 'egrep.exe' and 'fgrep.exe'

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 2003-02-02 15:25 -0500, Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:07PM -0500, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> >I used to use one of the Cygwin B packages where the egrep.exe utility was
> >included.
>
> Sigh.
I apologize for having taken your time with this to warrant such an 
exclamation.  I was citing my previous experience with Cygwin where I had 
utilized an "exe" and created ".bat" files that pointed to it.  After 
installing the new version my batch files stopped working.

> >I'm on an XP system and I downloaded replacement packages yesterday and
> >ensured that I included the "grep" package.
> >
> >I went to use "egrep.exe" and found it wasn't installed.  I did find an
> >egrep.1 but it just points to grep.
>
> egrep and fgrep are symbolic links to grep.exe.  Both work properly when
> invoked from bash.  I just checked.
Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have.  Did I miss a 
documented restriction that the programs *only* run under bash?

Could there be a FAQ that says "where is the .exe I'm expecting?" ... when 
not running in bash?  I did a search on the FAQ TOC for .exe and didn't 
find anything.

I honestly tried to solve this without burdening the list with another 
question, and was basing my question on my prior experience with the Cygwin 
collection.

> >p.s. http://cygwin.com/bugs.html points to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and
> >says where *not* to send bugs, but not where bugs should be sent for
> >problems like this ... I would have thought that would be a FAQ: "which
> >bugs (by example) go to which mail lists?"
>
> The cygwin mailing list says that it is for "just about all things
> cygwin" with "two exceptions".
>
> Is grep, egrep, or fgrep listed as one of the two exceptions?
I now see the word "bugs" in the description that I had missed 
earlier.  Sorry for my oversight.

Again, I apologize that I have taken your time; I was quite sincere in my 
attempts to help the project.

................ Ken


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