grep: Command not found when starting tcsh
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Jan 16 14:40:00 GMT 2003
Eric,
Let that be a lesson to you: nobody uses tcsh :)
I will fix the .csh script when I get a chance.
Funny that you noticed this problem, because I still have the inclusion
of these scripts on my to-do list... I had forgotten that I had already
included them.
Harold
J. Eric Bracken wrote:
> Note to the Cygwin-XFree86 team:
>
> I have Cygwin and XFree86 installed, and I was getting annoying messages
> of the form
>
> Grep: command not found
>
> every time I started up a tcsh shell. I finally tracked the problem
> down to
> the file /etc/profile.d/00xfree.csh. This script apparently executes
> before
> all other login scripts and is intended to put /usr/X11R6/bin on your
> path.
>
> Unfortunately it includes this line:
>
> eval "echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${X11PATH}"
>
> Because it's executing so early on, the PATH hasn't been properly set
> up yet,
> and grep was not being found.
>
> By replacing "grep" with "/bin/grep", the problem was resolved. This had
> already been done in the file 00xfree.sh in the same directory so I'm
> surprised
> the 00xfree.csh file hadn't been modified too.
>
> --Eric
>
>
>
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