Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> Perhaps ... but I'm not running under bash and never have. Did I
>> miss a documented restriction that the programs *only* run under
>> bash?
>
> It depends on the package. With something like grep you cannot (?)
> call a egrep from cmd.exe/command.com per se as it is a symbolic link
> to grep.exe (a windows shortcut) but you could call it from bash
Ah, but since it is created by setup, it is a system-cookie type symlink,
not a windows-shortcut type symlink.
On my system both egrep and fgrep are old-style Cygwin-only symlinks.
But some of the symlinks in my Cygwin bin directory are the new Windows
shortcut-based symlinks.