Re: grep: Command not found when starting tcsh

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Eric,

Let that be a lesson to you: nobody uses tcsh :)

I will fix the .csh script when I get a chance.

Funny that you noticed this problem, because I still have the inclusion 
of these scripts on my to-do list... I had forgotten that I had already 
included them.

Harold

J. Eric Bracken wrote:

> Note to the Cygwin-XFree86 team:
>
> I have Cygwin and XFree86 installed, and I was getting annoying messages
> of the form
>
>  Grep:  command not found
>
> every time I started up a tcsh shell.  I finally tracked the problem 
> down to
> the file /etc/profile.d/00xfree.csh.  This script apparently executes 
> before
> all other login scripts and is intended to put /usr/X11R6/bin on your 
> path.
>
> Unfortunately it includes this line:
>
>  eval "echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${X11PATH}"
>
> Because it's executing so early on, the PATH hasn't been properly set 
> up yet,
> and grep was not being found.
>
> By replacing "grep" with "/bin/grep", the problem was resolved.  This had
> already been done in the file 00xfree.sh in the same directory so I'm 
> surprised
> the 00xfree.csh file hadn't been modified too.
>
> --Eric