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From: Cliff Hones <cliff@hones.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: AW: line.exe is missing
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500C07DD.7090201@hones.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001cd680e$a47711b0$ed653510$@de>

On 22/07/2012 14:33, Paul Maier wrote:
> I found out, that line.exe is in the package util-linux-2.17.2-1.
> (http://cygwin.com/packages/util-linux/util-linux-2.17.2-1)
> 
> But I automatically got the newer version util-linux-2.21-1 from the mirror, where line.exe is _not_ included:
> http://cygwin.com/packages/util-linux/util-linux-2.21-1
> 
> Ok, I will downgrade to util-linux-2.17.2-1 to get line.exe.
> May I ask you to have a look at this to save line.exe for future releases?

The line utility has been deprecated for a while, and now appears
to have been removed from the util-linux package - you should switch
to using the head utility instead.  Note this is not Cygwin-specific!

-- Cliff


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-22 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22  0:47 Paul Maier
2012-07-22  3:26 ` Mark Geisert
2012-07-22 13:36   ` AW: " Paul Maier
2012-07-22 14:03     ` Cliff Hones [this message]

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