delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi | search |
X-Recipient: | archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com |
X-Spam-Check-By: | sourceware.org |
Date: | Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:30 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Weird behavior of tcsh.exe? |
Message-ID: | <20120304172030.GH18852@calimero.vinschen.de> |
Reply-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
References: | <33438483 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
In-Reply-To: | <33438483.post@talk.nabble.com> |
User-Agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Mailing-List: | contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm |
List-Id: | <cygwin.cygwin.com> |
List-Unsubscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Subscribe: | <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Archive: | <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> |
List-Post: | <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
List-Help: | <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> |
Sender: | cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com |
Mail-Followup-To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Delivered-To: | mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
On Mar 4 06:55, sborer wrote: > > Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug or some kind of feature, but it seems like > the behavior of tcsh.exe somewhat depends on its file name. > running the line: > tcsh.exe -c 'echo "d:\a\b\c"' > results in the output: "d". As if escaping of the argument occurred. > if i copy tcsh.exe to a different name not starting with tcsh.exe, for > example ntcsh.exe, then running: > ntcsh.exe -c 'echo "d:\a\b\c"' > results in the output: "d:\a\b\c" > Is this intentional? (Are there inside the code of tcsh.exe some lines that > actually check its filename and determine its behavior accordingly?) Yes. If the name is tcsh, it behaves as tcsh, as csh otherwise. As for the builtin echo command, the tcsh variant allows SysV and BSD-style, the non-tcsh version only BSD-style. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
webmaster | delorie software privacy |
Copyright © 2019 by DJ Delorie | Updated Jul 2019 |