Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <002101c0ec59$edfd9f80$1a6e1a3f@ca.boeing.com> From: "Michael A. Chase" To: "Travis Smith" , "Cygwin Mailing List" References: Subject: Re: Directories with trailing period. Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 11:19:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 That's a peculiarity of CP/M -> MSDOS -> Windows. Since Cygwin sits on top of Windows, it's a feature rather than a bug. -- Mac :}) Give a hobbit a fish and he'll eat fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he'll eat fish for an age. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Smith" To: "Cygwin Mailing List" Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 11:07 Subject: Directories with trailing period. > I have no idea if this is expected behavior. > > appending a trailing period (.) to any directory when changing directories > will allow you enter that directory. > > In Solaris I know this action fails with bash. > > > ~ $ cd src > ~/src $ cd mud > ~/src/mud $ cd logs > ~/src/mud/logs $ pwd > /home/Travis/src/mud/logs > ~/src/mud/logs $ ll > total 1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 Travis None 0 Jun 3 13:57 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 Travis None 0 May 28 15:52 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 Travis None 67 May 20 16:52 mylog.log > ~/src/mud/logs $ cd / > / $ cd home. > /home. $ cd Travis. > /home./Travis. $ cd src. > /home./Travis./src. $ cd mud. > /home./Travis./src./mud. $ cd logs. > /home./Travis./src./mud./logs. $ ll > total 1 > drwxr-xr-x 2 Travis None 0 Jun 3 13:57 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 Travis None 0 May 28 15:52 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 Travis None 67 May 20 16:52 mylog.log > /home./Travis./src./mud./logs. $ pwd > /home./Travis./src./mud./logs. > /home./Travis./src./mud./logs. $ alias ll > ll="/usr/bin/ls -laF --color=auto" > /home./Travis./src./mud./logs. $ > > > And sorry, no patch. I haven't even looked at the source for bash before. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple