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Re: which command returns incomplete paths that don't work with all commands
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:36:27 -0400
- Subject: Re: which command returns incomplete paths that don't work with all commands
- References: <20050727221654.56072.qmail@web31415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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