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On 20/04/2012 14:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
> When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed
> (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are
> *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inconvenient to find the real
> executable applications (*.exe).

'export EXECIGNORE=*.dll' is a cygwin extension to bash to tell it you don't
want to see those pesky dlls.

See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/bash.README

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