Re: Newbie questions

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>]

At 06:26 AM 8/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
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> 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
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