X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:20:07 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <33181387.20100915212007@mtu-net.ru> To: Al , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .exe magic reloaded 2 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Greetings, Al! > I have another interesting case where .exe magic doesn't work as > transparently as one would expect. > I have a file python2.6.exe. A script tries to find it with "ls > python2.?". It is not found. I'm fairly certain, that the script is bugged in this specific case. It should be looking for python2.* instead. Minor version could have any length... potentially. (And yes, I know, there wouldn't be .10 for now) > Here the script needs a modification to work with Cygwin, but we can't > really say that there is a bug in the script. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.09.2010, <21:18> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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