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Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:40:29PM -0700, cyberdon wrote:
>HI, 
>
>I was getting error when tryin to run cat command as well but once i ran it
>like this:
>
>/bin/cat pinger.data
>
>then it began to work and the data from file "pinger.data" was parsed out
>Maybe this'll work for you.

That implies that your PATH is screwed up and you likely had some other
version of cat in another directory, possibly from a 3PP.

cgf

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP

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