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Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine
hi,
The same test got passed with cygwin 5.2 in windows 2003.
Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to sudhap85 on 4/2/2009 5:45 AM:
>> Hi,
>> what i means the problem here is that function is not working for
>> me.
>> (i.e) if i run cat > file1 >>file2. Here file1 content is not copied to
>> file2.
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> This is not cygwin specific. Nor is it how the shell works. If you want
> output to go to two places, you need to use tee, not multiple redirection
> operators.
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> tee file2 < file1 >> file3
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> copies file1 into file2 (overwrite) and file3 (append). You probably want
> to read a good shell tutorial book.
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> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
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> Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
> volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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