I am new to Cygwin, but very experienced with Unix/Linux. I did this command, just to see how compatible cygwin is with Unix/Linux: strings -a `which ps` | grep Header
This works on Unix/Linux (it correctly returns nothing for this executable, but it returns a lot of stuff with Oracle Applications executables). It does not work with Cygwin because `which ps` returns /usr/bin/ps, which can't be opened by the strings command: sh-3.00$ strings -a `which ps` strings: /usr/bin/ps: No such file or directory sh-3.00$ Ideally, it would return the absolute path, with the actual extension left intact. In my case, that would be: f:/cygwin/bin/ps.exe This would work inside cygwin or outside - then I can do "strings -a `which ps`" from sh or cmd/command. Is there is a really good reason why the which command should return a path that only cygwin programs can recognize? -Don __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
