Re: unix date util in emacs shell

[Xah Lee]

On Nov 30, 5:51 am, frank paulsen <frank.paul...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@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
>
> --
> frobnicate foo

oops, i've be super dumb.

been getting very old...

 Xah