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Re: Find tool contained in unknown pkg
First off, thanks posters for the responses
"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:
> Since 'id' on its own might give you too many matches, it's worth mentioning
> the handy trick that (this being 'doze not linux really) the full name of the
> program is of course 'id.exe'.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=id.exe
>
> That narrows it down sufficiently...
Yes Nice.... Thank you
Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
[...]
>
> Ah, but this will not match scripts or symlinks. Since most executables
> live in something that ends in "bin", and the package search page supports
> full perl regular expressions, you can do
>
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fid%5Cb
Also nice... both are really nice tips
"Jerry D. Hedden" <jerry@hedden.us> writes:
[...]
> coreutils
I figured something basic... but in a moment I'll explain why it
appeared to be missing.
ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) writes:
>> I've just installed a very minimal cygwin. I noticed the `id' tool is
>> not present
>
> A little too minimal, I would say. id is part of coreutils, which is
> a Base package, and as such, it should be part of every working
> cygwin installation. You may want to run 'cygcheck -c' to see
> which packages are incomplete, and should be reinstalled using
> setup.exe.
Not too minimal just too dumb on my part.
It was nothing more serious than path not getting setup to point to
C:/cygwin as `/'.
I'm not sure why that would happen, but I may have left out some basic
step in there.... I trashed an old install then ran a new one and
didn't really read up on the proper steps for a cygwin install.
> Also, following the directions here
>> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Ahh yes sorry. But it turns out to be operator error thru and thru.
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