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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:20:07 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How do you write scripts with portable filenames?
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:48:12PM +1000, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT 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

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