Bash local builtin and redirection problems

[Randall R Schulz]

Ray,

Were I to guess why "local" and the I/O redirection syntax _appear_ to be 
missing when your script executes, I'd guess that it's because the 
script(s) in question begins with this:

#!/bin/sh

Under Cygwin, /bin/sh is Ash, not BASH.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 18:00 2002-09-21, Ray Pimm wrote:
>I have successfully installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 SP3. However, when I 
>attempt to run a bash shell script that works fine under Linux, two 
>problems occur.
>
>1. The bash "local" builtin does not seem to work. Error message is 
>"local: not found".
>
>2. Both shorthand formats "&>file" and ">&file" for redirecting standard 
>output and standard error do not work. However, the longhand equivalent 
>">file 2>&1" does work.
>
>Strangely, both of the above features work from the bash command line (but 
>not from a shell script).
>
>Cygwin version is 1.3.12-4.
>
>Bash version is 2.05b-5. An earlier version 2.05a-3 also fails.
>
>Ray


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