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Subject: Re: Ending space in file names is stripped, "sometimes"?
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On Jul  7 14:13, Kent Boortz wrote:
> 
> [For some reason this email got stuck in my "not sent" folder]
> 
> Mark Geisert <mark AT maxrnd DOT com> writes:
> > Thanks for the cygcheck output, but if the problem is observed only "sometimes" 
> > maybe you could provide an example?
> 
> Sorry, I was not clear, I did not mean it was "random".
> 
> I meant that 'ls "foo "' complained the directory was not found if the
> space was included, while "find" did happily accept "foo", "foo ",
> "foo " as argument meaning the same thing, still including the extra
> spaces in the output. This is shown in the examples I included.

There were no examples in your OP, just a cygcheck output without any
further comment.

Trailing spaces (and dots) in filenames are silently dropped by Win32
function calls.  This explains some of the weird effects when trying to
use them.  This will change with Cygwin 1.7 which doesn't use Win32
functions for file access anymore.


Corinna

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