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On Jul 14 10:26, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
> Karl M wrote on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:17 AM:
> 
> > Hi All...
> > 
> > I just noticed while looking around after updating dash that "ls
> /bin/*sh"
> > does not find bash and dash, but it does on my Fedora core 6 machine
> at work.
> > I see the issue in both 1.5 and 1.7, attached is an example in cygwin
> 1.7.  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > ...Karl
> 
> I can reproduce this (for bash, anyway; I don't have dash installed),
> plus:
> 
> $ ls /bin/*sh.exe
> /bin/ash.exe   /bin/ksh.exe    /bin/ppmflash.exe  /bin/sh.exe
> /bin/tclsh.exe
> /bin/bash.exe  /bin/pdksh.exe  /bin/rsh.exe       /bin/ssh.exe
> /bin/wish.exe

That's expected behaviour.  bash.exe simply doesn't match *sh, it
only matches *sh.exe.

In theory, what we could do is to drop the .exe suffix in future.
On Windows NT it's not required to run an executable so it would
be safe to drop the suffix as far as Cygwin is concerned.

However, cmd as well as Windows Explorer don't identify executables
using the executability flag.  Both refuse to start executables
missing the .exe suffix.


Corinna

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