Hi, I'm trying to examine a hip file with hexpand, but when I run the command in cygwin, I get the following error.

Command:
“C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 13.0.198.21\bin\hexpand” cusers/kevin/desktop/test.hip

Error:
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hcpio: Command not found.
test.hip does not seem to be a hip file.
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However, test.hip is a valid hip file - opens in Houdini just fine.

I'm running windows 7, Houdini 13.0.198

Any ideas?
Thanks

Make sure that the parent “bin” directory is in your PATH. If you started up “Command Line Tools” from Start Menu for Houdini, this is done automatically for you. If you're in Cygwin, then start it up, and do something like this:

cd “CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 13.0.198.21”
source houdini_setup
cd “cusers/kevin/desktop”
hexpand test.hip

Thanks edward. Now I'm getting the following error:

/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.21/bin/hexpand: Permission denied.

Any ideas on that? I tried running cygwin in administrator mode but no luck

Bumping the thread up - anyone have any ideas on how to get around this permission denied error?

Thanks

Yeah, you're right it seems that Houdini's native csh doesn't seem to work anymore.

I had to do this to make it work:

/usr/bin/csh `which hexpand` test.hip


First, I use cygwin's csh explicitly and the `which hexpand` part gives it the full path to the hexpand found in PATH.