Cygwin

Windows Shell environment with all or atleast most utilities provided by Linux / Unix systems
  1. Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ?

    Clear screen on cygwin

    Some one may be wondering where is the clear command on cygwin. If we type either

    cls
    or
    clear
    we would be shown bash: clear: command not found. So there are many fancy ways to clear the command line prompt, but the one I …

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  2. Error Installing PERL modules "unrecognized command line option -fstack -protector"

    Error Installing PERL modules "unrecognized command line option -fstack -protector"

    unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector" error usually comes on Cygwin when installing PERL modules. For example when installing the DBI module or DBD::MySQL perl module, the following error comes on cygwin :

    cp lib/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Base.pm blib/lib/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Base.pm cp dbipport.h blib/arch/auto/DBI/dbipport.h cp lib/DBI/Gofer/Execute.pm blib/lib/DBI/Gofer/Execute.pm cp lib/DBI/DBD.pm blib/lib/DBI/DBD.pm cp … read on

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