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A. McLeod
A. McLeod

Reputation: 31

Issue with uname when trying to launch atom from MSYS shell

I have recently installed Atom, and made sure the path is correct, however, when calling any command such as atom file_name, or atom . I am met with 

uname: invalid option -- o
Try "uname --help" for more information.
"esources" is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I have tested windows default cmd and it launches atom without an issue, and based on the error, somehow resources got renamed to esources, however I am completely lost as to where I would got rectify this issue. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

And if I do run uname -a I get 

MINGW32_NT-6.2 COMP_NAME 1.0.12(0.46/3/2) 2012-07-05 14:56 i686 unknown

Upvotes: 3

Views: 773

Answers (2)

rubenvb
rubenvb

Reputation: 76775

It seems you are using the obsolete MSYS.

Try using MSYS2, which provides up to date versions of pretty much anything and most likely does not show this problem.

Upvotes: 0

AustinM
AustinM

Reputation: 1

Basically what's going on here is the version of uname (uname.exe) that you have doesn't have the "-o" (--operating-system) option. I ran into this issue as well, but have another machine where running atom from bash on windows was working so I copied the uname.exe over to the correct location on the machine that wasn't working and it worked like a charm.

To find where uname is you can run "where uname". You can check the version using "uname --version". The version that is working for me is 5.97 (I didn't check the version before replacing it).

Upvotes: 0

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