Fred Ma wrote: > I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. > This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old > cygwin installation at the moment. I eventually found that "stat" > resides in coreutils, but I was wondering if there is a way to specify > whole-word matches when searching either the mailing list archive or > while performing a Setup Package Search. The reason is that some > words are very common as partial words, so searches tend to come up > with many unrelated hits. Thanks.
The search is a regular expression. If you are searching for a binary of a particular name, use "/foo\.exe" which will anchor the match so that it can only match a command by that name, i.e. /some/path/to/foo.exe. See "man pcre" for more information. Brian -- 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/
