"diff" command missing in cygwin distribution ?

[Finof]

Hi,

I just installed cygwin 2.573.2.2 directly from internet.
Trying to get my linux-scripts working I repeated the installation a few times (only changing text-mode to binary-mode and back). Now I'm using test-mode.

Now my script fails on a diff command. And to my surprise I can't find "diff" in my cygwin-folder.
Shouldn't it be there ??

[Václav Haisman]

Finof wrote, On 21.11.2007 11:57:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed cygwin 2.573.2.2 directly from internet.
> Trying to get my linux-scripts working I repeated the installation a few
> times (only changing text-mode to binary-mode and back). Now I'm using
> test-mode.
>
> Now my script fails on a diff command. And to my surprise I can't find
> "diff" in my cygwin-folder.
> Shouldn't it be there ??

Cygwin setup.exe installs only very few packages by default.

Please, use <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find the package that you seek.

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[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 11/21/2007, Finof wrote:
> Hi, I just installed cygwin 2.573.2.2 directly from internet. Trying to get
> my linux-scripts working I repeated the installation a few times (only
> changing text-mode to binary-mode and back). Now I'm using test-mode.

2.573.2.2 is the version of 'setup.exe', not any of Cygwin's packages.  Each
package has their own version.  This is why we recommend *attaching* the
output of 'cygcehck -s -r -v' to problem reports, so we know what versions
of which packages you have installed.  See:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

We highly recommend working with binary mounts as well.

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[Finof]

Thanks, I installed diffutils and now have many diff-commands available.

Finof wrote:

Hi,

I just installed cygwin 2.573.2.2 directly from internet.
Trying to get my linux-scripts working I repeated the installation a few times (only changing text-mode to binary-mode and back). Now I'm using test-mode.

Now my script fails on a diff command. And to my surprise I can't find "diff" in my cygwin-folder.
Shouldn't it be there ??