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"Tolkin, Steve" wrote: > 3. Why doesn't ls tem* find the directory named temp ? Your TEMP directory has uppercase characters in it's name. The pattern matching is case sensitive by default. If you call `ls temp', no pattern matching takes place, so the directory is found because the Windows file systems aren't case sensitive but only case preserving. > 580/temp> rm *.tmp > > -- No error message but the files are still there ! The files you are trying to rm are currently in use by another app. Cygwin has saved your rm request and will try to remove the files as soon as they are not exclusively locked by the other app. > -- I start to suspect the leading tilde > > 588/temp> echo ~ > /usr/home > 589/temp> echo ~a > > -- A blank line is emitted. Why? Because there's no user `a'. The behaviour of the tilde is intentionally. ~ = $HOME of the current user, ~foo = $HOME of user foo. You may use it as a convenient abbreviation in paths. If you don't want that, use quotes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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