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RE: can't open file for writing
- From: C Schreiner <caschreirc at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cassrs at iowatelecom dot net
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:34:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: RE: can't open file for writing
Yes, I meant "echo":
prompt> echo "hello" > foo.txt
bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory
Going through my records, I did not have this problem
when using the current Cygwin release as of last
February (2004). The problem started when I upgraded
to Cygwin NT 5.1 (cygwin dll 1.5.10) in August. Did
something change in cygwin that could be affecting the
problem (even if it isn't Cygwin's fault)? Is it
possible I somehow got some library out of sync?
-- Christian
--- Hannu E K Nevalainen
<_garbage_collector_@telia.com> wrote:
> C Schreiner, ++++++-owner@cygwin.+++ wrote:
> > I can not save to a nonexistant file name under
> > Cygwin, but I can under Windows.
> >
> > When I type:
> >
> > cat "hello" > foo.txt
>
> I suppose you MEANT "echo" here... otherwise:
>
> $ cat "hello" >foo.txt
> cat: hello: No such file or directory
> $ echo "hello" >foo.txt
> $ cat foo.txt
> hello
>
> > under Cygwin I get this error message:
> >
> > bash: foo.txt: No such file or directory
> >
> > (unless foo.txt already exists in the current
> > directory). This only happens with network
> > filesystems.
> <SNIP>
>
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer
> systems --72-->
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