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Re: redirection unexpected error
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Seth Rubin <srubin at thoughtprocess dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:29:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: redirection unexpected error
- References: <CNELLBDHOKALJPHOOBBEMEDHDNAA.srubin@thoughtprocess.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Seth Rubin wrote:
> After setting up Cygwin on an XP Home machine, some apps, notably vi and
> postgresql, are erroring out with:
>
> syntax error: redirection unexpected
>
> Any clue about what to do about this? Thanks.
> -- Seth
At a guess, you might have an alias that's doing something weird (e.g., a
csh alias in bash). Look at the output of "type -a vi" and "type -a
postgresql" (if you use bash0. Also, please read and follow the Cygwin
problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
Igor
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