Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3C1371B0.516F891A@t-online.de> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 15:14:08 +0100 From: 520066587150-0001@t-online.de (Jerome BENOIT) Reply-To: JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JGMBenoit@Wanadoo.fr CC: Cygnus Subject: Re: mkdir under Win98 References: <3C13331B.3F93A240@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 520066587150-0001@t-dialin.net By checking my script, I have just realized that the strange behaviour comes from somewhereelse: let us assume that dummy.tar.gz is an archive file of the directory `dummy', if I do under Win98: 1] mkdir -p dum 2] ln -s dum dummy 3] tar -zvxf FOO/dummy.tar.gz then the directory dum is removed. The step 3] worked fine a few months ago. To quickly fix it, I do: 3p] tar -kzvxf FOO/dummy.tar.gz Did I miss something ? Thanks inadvance, Jerome BENOIT Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Bonjour: > > It seems that `mkdir' behaves strngely under Win98: > 1] it works fine when the command is typed onlie; > 2] sometimes it doesn't work when it is used in a (bash) script. > > Please note that cygwin installation is uptodate. > > Any idea ? > > Thanks, > Jerome BENOIT > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Institute of Molecular Biology Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena Winzerlaer Strasse 10, Jena 07745, Germany *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ JGMBenoit@wanadoo.fr *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/