cygwin out of sync with version?

Joey Officer jofficer@wi.rr.com
Wed Oct 25 16:40:00 GMT 2006


Actually, I just found the specific reference under the experimental 
bash release, I see the notes now.  Thanks for the quick response, my 
script is running as intended, I can actually get some work done today ;)

Thanks again,
joey


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Joey Officer wrote:
>> I have a script that I run, the script is:
>>
>> findme.bash:
>> #!/bin/bash
>>        for i in $( ls *.gz ); do
>>                echo Searching $i
>>                zcat -c $i | grep $1 >> searchresults.txt
>>                echo Finsihed searching $i , moving on to the next 
>> file...
>>        done
>>
>> Now, this used to work just fine, but now I receive the following 
>> error message:
>>
>> $ ./findme.bash 10.65.118.
>> '/findme.bash: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `do
>> '/findme.bash: line 2: `        for i in $( ls *.gz ); do
>>
>> The only thing that I can think of that might have changed was that I 
>> recently downloaded and installed the mjpegtools for cygwin, which 
>> might have been compiled under a different version of cygwin, 
>> earlier/devel? ... at anyrate, I've run this same script on another 
>> linux box for testing, and it still works just fine, which is why I'm 
>> back to thinking that this is a problem with my install of cygwin.
>>
>> Is there a way to repair the existing installation, or a way to 
>> confirm that all of the installed software is the correct version?  
>> I've already run the setup, and had it perform the updates that were 
>> available, but it still is erroring out.
>
> Read the announcement for the recent release of bash and run your script
> through 'd2u'.  The former should familiarize you with the basis for this
> issue and possible solutions in general and the latter will fix your
> current problem. ;-)
>

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