Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <372439C2.FFEB447C@mcd.alcatel.be> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:02:42 +0200 From: "R. Hickling" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Demmer, Thomas" CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Shell scripts called *.exe References: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA536FD5 AT KJSDEMUCSHREXC1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The solution is quite simply to remove the '.exe' - but you can't go mv something.exe something because it says mv: `something.exe' and `something' are the same file (so it's 'mv something.exe something_else; mv something_else something') Yes - parts of MS is braindead. Not it's marketing department though. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com