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Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:34:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin commands (cat,grep) not working in my windows 2008 machine
- References: <1345167629309-47356.post@n5.nabble.com> <1345167628992-92067.post@n5.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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