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grep: Command not found when starting tcsh


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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