Bash local builtin and redirection problems

[Ray Pimm]

Thanks Randall and Michael

#!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh did the trick!

>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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