Linda,
A couple of points to note:
1) In Cygwin, /bin/sh != bash. /bin/sh == ash, and it doesn't support
bash'isms like /dev/stderr. Use >&2 and >&1 in /bin/sh.
2) While it's acceptable to have a space in your home directory name or
the value of $TMP/$TEMP, some scripts cannot handle it (because they're
missing proper quoting). My guess is that 'makewhatis' is one such...
Don't know about the apropos bit...
Igor
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, linda w (cyg) wrote:
> I normally use bash and this works in bash:
>
> echo "hello stderr" >/dev/stderr
> echo "hello stdout" >/dev/stdout
>
> But in /bin/sh:
>
> $ echo hello stderr >/dev/stderr
> cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent
> $ echo hello stdout >/dev/stdout
> cannot create /dev/stdout: directory nonexistent
> $
>
> ---
> I'm guessing this isn't supposed to work this way?
>
> "makewhatis -v" doesn't like seem to like it:
> law> makewhatis -v
> /usr/sbin/makewhatis: cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent
>
> I invoked the -v when a simple "makewhatis" yielded
> "cd: can't cd to /cygdrive/c/Documents"
>
> Apropos is a little confused about one of it's lines.
> Does anyone else get garbage on this:
>
> apropos options|wc -l|grep "^SYN"
>
> "wc" gives this:
> law> apropos options|grep "^SYN"|wc
> 1 2332 13924
>
> That's one heck of a long line. Do I just have some junk somewhere?
>
> I could attach it, but I don't want to unnecessarily send all that
> junk out if it's easily reproducible.
>
> linda
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