From: David <da...@da...> - 2004-05-06 18:13:27
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I'm interested in getting more functionality with msys (e.g. fileutiles, textutils, coreutils) Should I just switch to cygwin or should I try compiling GNU coreutils package on my mingq-msys system? thanks, david |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2004-05-07 10:20:50
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David wrote: >I'm interested in getting more functionality with msys (e.g. fileutiles, >textutils, coreutils) > > > Some functionality will build OOB as a mingw32 target. >Should I just switch to cygwin or should I try compiling GNU coreutils >package on my mingq-msys system? > > Check out gnuwin32.sf.net for native binary distribution of a lot of GNU software. I don't know how well it works with MSYS. You could if you desire build your own versions as target MSYS. Try a Google for msysDVLPR. Earnie -- http://www.mingw.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=15438 |
From: David <da...@da...> - 2004-05-07 16:15:23
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On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 06:20:42AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > David wrote: > > >I'm interested in getting more functionality with msys (e.g. fileutiles, > >textutils, coreutils) > > > > > > > Some functionality will build OOB as a mingw32 target. > > >Should I just switch to cygwin or should I try compiling GNU coreutils > >package on my mingq-msys system? > > > > > Check out gnuwin32.sf.net for native binary distribution of a lot of GNU > software. I don't know how well it works with MSYS. You could if you > desire build your own versions as target MSYS. Try a Google for msysDVLPR. > > Earnie Thanks, Earnie. I downloaded the binaries and dependencies (required dlls) and the commands work great, but only in the installed directory. I can't seem to use the 'paste' command for example in my home directory. After 'paste foo bar > dummy', it just hangs. Any hints? Thanks, David |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2004-05-07 16:52:00
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David wrote: > >Thanks, Earnie. I downloaded the binaries and dependencies (required >dlls) and the commands work great, but only in the installed directory. >I can't seem to use the 'paste' command for example in my home >directory. After 'paste foo bar > dummy', it just hangs. > > > I've never used a paste command, what does it do? Is it similar to ``cat foo bar > dummy''? Earnie -- http://www.mingw.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=15438 |
From: David <da...@da...> - 2004-05-07 17:38:47
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On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:51:52PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > David wrote: > > > > >Thanks, Earnie. I downloaded the binaries and dependencies (required > >dlls) and the commands work great, but only in the installed directory. > >I can't seem to use the 'paste' command for example in my home > >directory. After 'paste foo bar > dummy', it just hangs. > > > > > > > I've never used a paste command, what does it do? Is it similar to > ``cat foo bar > dummy''? I dunno what 'cat foo bar > dummy' does, come to think of it... I've always only given one argument to cat. Anyway... 'paste foo bar > dummy' appends lines of foo and bar to each other. I have data files in columnar form. And sometimes, I would to subtract column 2 of from 'foo' from colum 2 from 'bar'. Ultimately, I want to do: paste foo bar | awk ($2 - $4) > results.txt I'm new to awk so that might not be exactly right... but you get the idea I wish I had a linux box at work... :) -david |
From: David <da...@da...> - 2004-05-07 18:19:30
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On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:51:52PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > David wrote: > > > > >Thanks, Earnie. I downloaded the binaries and dependencies (required > >dlls) and the commands work great, but only in the installed directory. > >I can't seem to use the 'paste' command for example in my home > >directory. After 'paste foo bar > dummy', it just hangs. > > > > > > > I've never used a paste command, what does it do? Is it similar to > ``cat foo bar > dummy''? I solved my problem, though it was ugly. I just added the textutils binary directory to my path. For some strange reason, when I copy all the files (exe and dlls) to /bin, the commands don't work. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2004-05-07 22:59:09
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David wrote: >On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:51:52PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > >>David wrote: >> >> >> >>>Thanks, Earnie. I downloaded the binaries and dependencies (required >>>dlls) and the commands work great, but only in the installed directory. >>>I can't seem to use the 'paste' command for example in my home >>>directory. After 'paste foo bar > dummy', it just hangs. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I've never used a paste command, what does it do? Is it similar to >>``cat foo bar > dummy''? >> >> > >I solved my problem, though it was ugly. I just added the textutils >binary directory to my path. For some strange reason, when I copy all >the files (exe and dlls) to /bin, the commands don't work. > > You were warned, see /doc/msys/readme.rtf. The restriction is removed in the recent MSYS-1.0.11 snapshot, which I've been using most successfully. Earnie -- http://www.mingw.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=15438 |