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* line.exe is missing
@ 2012-07-22  0:47 Paul Maier
  2012-07-22  3:26 ` Mark Geisert
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Maier @ 2012-07-22  0:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Hi,

after upgrading Cygwin the file /bin/line.exe is not there any more.
It used to be there.

Could you please check what has happened to this file?

Thank you.

Regards,
  Paul



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* Re: line.exe is missing
  2012-07-22  0:47 line.exe is missing Paul Maier
@ 2012-07-22  3:26 ` Mark Geisert
  2012-07-22 13:36   ` AW: " Paul Maier
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From: Mark Geisert @ 2012-07-22  3:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Paul Maier writes:
> after upgrading Cygwin the file /bin/line.exe is not there any more.
> It used to be there.
>
> Could you please check what has happened to this file?

On the main Cygwin web page, to the left side there is a link to "Search
Packages".  If you click that link and in the resulting search dialog put
"/line.exe$" (that's a regular expression) you'll find that line.exe is in the
util-linux package.  Run setup.exe and install that package.  Or if it is
already installed, reinstall it.  I don't know which package it used to be in
your prior installation.
HTH,

..mark


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* AW: line.exe is missing
  2012-07-22  3:26 ` Mark Geisert
@ 2012-07-22 13:36   ` Paul Maier
  2012-07-22 14:03     ` Cliff Hones
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Paul Maier @ 2012-07-22 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin; +Cc: 'Mark Geisert'


> > after upgrading Cygwin the file /bin/line.exe is not there any more.
> > It used to be there.
> >
> > Could you please check what has happened to this file?
> 
> On the main Cygwin web page, to the left side there is a link to "Search
> Packages".  If you click that link and in the resulting search dialog put
> "/line.exe$" (that's a regular expression) you'll find that line.exe is in the
> util-linux package.  Run setup.exe and install that package.  Or if it is
> already installed, reinstall it.  I don't know which package it used to be in
> your prior installation.


Hi Mark,

thank you.

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?

Thank you & regards,
  Paul



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* Re: AW: line.exe is missing
  2012-07-22 13:36   ` AW: " Paul Maier
@ 2012-07-22 14:03     ` Cliff Hones
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From: Cliff Hones @ 2012-07-22 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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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