From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: " Clark Sims " Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990824093254.00a3dbb0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg00604.html Message-ID: <19990831234900.sMLiVLHQDwH6Eq4iKFYAalKWhqHAouGhHGN-QNy5nVU@z> At 06:26 AM 8/24/99 -0700, you wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Length: 1332 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I just loaded cygwin onto my computer and I have >several questions. > >1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask? >For example, my c source files appear as a mixture of >.c and .C suffixes. ls *.c returns a different set of >files than ls *.C There's an option in bash to make it case-insensitive. I don't remember what it is though. See the docs or check the mail archives. If you look in the archives, you'll need to look back a bit. The topic was last brought up > 3 months ago if I remember correctly... >2) How does bash search for commands? I am used to DOS/ >Windozs programming, where the dos command prompt >searches the path. When I am running bash however, >I must type in the full path of any executable that >I want to run. Is there some way of avoiding having >to type in the full path? Put the paths where your utilities are in your path. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX (508) 560-1285 - cell phone -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com