Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:53:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > > With or without the '.exe'?
> > 
> > Depends if "test -f foo" finds foo.exe, along with other common things
> > that look for files.
> 
> "test -f foo" won't find foo.exe. "test -x foo" will find foo.exe

"test -f foo" _will_ find foo.exe if you set TEST_FINDS_EXE=y.

> but Tim van
> Holder (hi Tim) told me the other day that it'll find directories called "foo"
> in the path as well.

Isn't that a bug?  Does that happen on Unix and GNU/Linux systems as 
well.