On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM: > > | (ERROR) > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db > | /usr/bin/diff: /Cygwin.bat: No such file or directory > | > | Notice the slash before Cygwin.bat. Is this normal?? Other commands > | such as 'ls' work fine. > > The slash before the file name in the error message is normal - diff uses > the file name you typed in generating its message. However, why the diff > was unable to find the file by its absolute name is not normal - I > couldn't reproduce it, so there is something different about your / than > there is for mine. Running strace may shed some light on this, as well.
Thanks for your quick answer. I first tried to run strace which gave no output at all. Only then I realised there might be a windows command 'diff' and I was running that one. So I installed diffutils with the great Cygwin packagemanager. Then I got the strace output and the same error. Then I restarted Cygwin, and now the error is gone! (OK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ diff /Cygwin.bat Cygwin.ico Files /Cygwin.bat and Cygwin.ico differ The combination of posix/windows is terribly confusing for me sometimes. Thanks again for your help! Mathijs > > | Can somebody help me? > | > > We need 'cygcheck -svr' output, as a text attachment, to learn more about > your /. > > | Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > - -- > Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! > > Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) > Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHyA0284KuGfSFAYARArs/AKClMPXrjzU/3+25Fd9xsCVKyUpswgCfXHFy > RXnJUpVyAPfaFKTv7AP3MjQ= > =5dS4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- 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/
