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From: "Barnhart, Kevin" <Kevin DOT Barnhart AT echostar DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: run batch w/o .bat?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:46:24 -0600 
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Actually, I would settle for something like the following:

alias 'bat'='!:0-0.bat !:1*'

I'd like to add this into .bashrc.  Problem is that when I type in 'bat' at
the command line I get the following error:
bash: !:0-0.bat: command not found

I'm tried to escape the bang with a '\', but to no avail.  If I type:
!:0-0.bat !:1*
at the command line then there is no problem--it does what is supposed to,
which is to append '.bat' to the 0-word of the previous command.

Help?

Kevin


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [SMTP:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:56 AM
> To:	Barnhart, Kevin; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject:	RE: run batch w/o .bat?
> 
> At 12:32 PM 6/4/2002, Barnhart, Kevin wrote:
> >        [Barnhart, Kevin]  What sort of worms?  
> 
> I think my last sentence sums it up.  Also, if you take a look at the
> code responsible for figuring out what's an executable and what's not in
> Cygwin, you'll likely get a better feel for the scope of the issue here.
> 
> 
> >      How big is the can?
> 
> 
> No matter what size can you give me, I can find more worms than will fit
> in
> it! ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> >        Performance issues = me having to edit new batch files all the
> time.
> 
> 
> OK but I really have no idea what this statement means in the context of 
> this thread.
> 
> 
> >        Kevin 
> >
> >> <snip>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >Same here; it's just nice to not have to remember to tack on the .bat
> if
> >> >possible.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Right.  This has been discussed.  It could be added but it opens up a
> can
> >> of
> >> worms and would likely result in performance issues as well.  Searching
> >> for
> >> foo.exe and foo.bat (and foo.com and foo.sh and ...) whenever someone
> >> types
> >> "foo" is not ideal.
> >> 
> >> 
> >
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