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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
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Subject: RE: latest cygwin: 'run' problem
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:31:05 +0000
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Andrey Repin sent the following at Tuesday, September 09, 2014 9:08 AM
>That makes little sense. Could be solved, though. CMD doesn't offer a
>way to distinguish between file and directory, but we have test.

Every directory contains a virtual file named nul (note: only one L;
serves the function of /dev/null ), so one can test for that.

c:\> if exist c:\Windows\nul echo y
y

c:\> if exist c:\Windows\explorer.exe\nul echo y

c:\>

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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