Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:20:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How do you write scripts with portable filenames? Message-ID: <20020903112007.X12899@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <003d01c25325$8cd3a090$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020903084809.5D71758A0@ivory.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020903084809.5D71758A0@ivory.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:48:12PM +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > On 3 Sep, Max Bowsher wrote: > > I _was_ pretty sure that this was supposed to 'just work'. (And it does with mv, > > but not with rm). I guess this is a bug. I think you might be at least > > temporarily stuck with using `uname` to find out if you are on cygwin, and > > setting and using an EXEEXT variable throughout the script. > > The trouble is when the EXEEXT has toi be a whole set, like .exe or .dll > or .sh or .pl or .awk ... you get the idea. But that's not the case. ".exe" is the only special one. You can make your live harder if you like, of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/