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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:56:18 -0400
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Atom Smasher wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> There are no duplicate *.exe commands.  All Cygwin executables contain 
>> the exe extension as Windows prefers.  Cygwin tries to make things 
>> easier by mapping "cat" to "cat.exe", for example, which is why it may 
>> look to you like there are both in the Cygwin environment.  But look 
>> at 'c:\cygwin\bin' in the Explorer and you'll see all the commands 
>> have the .exe extension. If you get rid of one, you get rid of the 
>> other since they are the same. Now, to anticipate your next question, 
>> '/usr/bin/cat.exe' and '/bin/cat.exe' are not duplicates either.  See 
>> the results of typing 'mount'.
> =======================
> 
> i'm not talking about deleting any files, just deleting duplicate *.exe 
> commands from my command hash, so they don't auto-complete when i press 
> <TAB>. the *.exe commands would be there (and be available if called), i 
> just wouldn't have to look at them when i tab-complete.
> 
> ls -ilh `which cat cat.exe`
> 
> that tells me that the two commands are hard-linked; they share the same 
> inode. it seems the same way for all of the commands that appear in my 
> PATH with and without a ".exe" suffix.
> 
> so the question remains: is it "safe" to delete all *.exe files from my 
> command hash? or should i first check for the same command, in the same 
> place, without the ".exe" suffix?

There are no Cygwin commands that don't have the ".exe" suffix so I don't
see why you can't delete them from your hash if you want.  Never done it
myself so I don't know if it will really accomplish your intended
goal or not though.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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