RE: Re[2]: cat

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Richard,

Searching for "bin/cat" returns exactly one match.  It's usually a good
assumption that an executable will be in "*bin/", so prepending "bin/"
will almost always narrow your search to executables.  OTOH, using ".exe"
is not guaranteed -- try finding "egrep.exe", for example; you'll be in
for a surprise.

These tips have been posted before (by me as well as others), and I even
recommended recently that they be added to the FAQ:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01221.html>.
	Igor

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Richard Campbell wrote:

> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cat.exe
>
> Found 9 matches for cat.exe.
>
> The answer is the textutils package.
>
> There are 197 matches for cat, though, so perhaps the
> package search utility is becoming less useful over time?
>
> -Richard Campbell.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RomikB [mailto:romikb@mail.ru]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: Igor Pechtchanski
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re[2]: cat
>
>
> Hello Igor,
>
> Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 9:34:14 PM, you wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
> >>     I need cat utility, with pakage I must download?
> >> RomikB
>
> IP> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC13>
>
> I searching there before but don't find anything.

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