Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/29/08:19:14
> According to Victor Atkinson on 7/25/2005 1:23 PM:
>> I believe that it is Bash itself that is causing this behavior, and not
some
>> underlying Cygwin mechanism, for two reasons: First, the backslash
format
>> of the command works fine under zsh, tcsh, and csh. Second, backslashed
>> paths work fine under Bash, if used as parameters to built-in commands
like
>> cd, or external commands like wzzip.exe.
>
> Indeed, bash was following the letter of the law of POSIX - it invokes a
> PATH search unless the first non-assignment word of the command includes a
> '/'. So in bash-3.0-10, I will patch that to also skip path searches if
> the command starts with <letter>: or includes '\\'.
>
Thanks, Eric. I think that would be a good all-around solution. I really
appreciate your effort in working on this, and making tools and environments
like Bash available to the rest of us, so that we can be productive. I
shudder to think of where I would be if I had to rely of Redmond to get my
job (electrical engineering) done.
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* Victor Atkinson
* Syracuse, NY, USA
* atkinson AT syrres DOT com
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