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Re: unix date util in emacs shell


From: frank paulsen
Subject: Re: unix date util in emacs shell
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:51:43 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> here's a oddity.
>
> on Cygwin bash on Windows Vista, i can get date like this:
>
>
> $ date
 ^^^
this is bash.

> but in emacs “shell”, running the same date command, i get this:
>
>
> c:\Users\xah\web\xahlee_org\comp>which date
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

this is cmd.exe, and 'date' is an internal command of cmd.exe, unknown
to 'which'.

try to use bash instead of cmd:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NTEmacsWithCygwin

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