From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 08:45:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25582 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25576 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA00227; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA09838; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608061545.IAA09838@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: ``tgrep'' from Unix Power Tools To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@tera.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608060527.XAA25668@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 5, 96 11:27:42 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Nate Williams: > Gary Kline writes: > > > > > > Has anyone used the short `tgrep' perl script from the UNIX > > POWER TOOLS book? It works on my Sun and fails with a strange > > error blurb on my FreeBSD machine. > > Hold on, yes, I can read your mind and the 'strange error blurb' that > Perl is producing is: > > "Not enough information to diagnose the problem". C'mon folks, we can't > read your mind, you've *GOT* to give us something to work on. > > 'My car doesn't work right. It makes a funny noise, although my > neighbor's car works fine. What's wrong with my car?' > > > Ouch, sorry. tgrep always give this error: p5 8:42 [316] r 313 ~/tmp/TG/sbin ./tgrep the tgrep -T and -B not implemented on filehandles at (eval) line 7. On my Sun, no such. gary