On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:16:54PM -0700, Don Beusee wrote: >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$
Try "which /usr/bin/ps.exe". That would work better. cgf -- 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/