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From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Inconsistence on file operation when the name already exists with exe extension
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF9ED18.4080006@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU152-W26F54627DEBFF08480143BCEEC0@phx.gbl>

On 7/8/2012 10:19 PM, Aaron Schneider wrote:
>
> --On an empty dir--:
>
> touch file.exe
>
> touch file.img
>
> touch file doesn't create the corresponding file.
>
> --Then--
>
> touch helpp
>
> cp helpp file
>
> cp: can't create regular file «file»: File exists
>
> On rm file it removes the file.exe instead of saying file not found.
>
> Is this behavior intended? This is not unix like, the filename should be preserved as is
>   		 	   		

In a normal unix, programs do not need the exe suffix so on cygwin
  "file.exe" can be referred as  "file".

"file" is the unix way
"file.exe" is the windows way

Try:
$ cd /bin
$ ls -l bash
$ ls -l bash*

as such you can not have a second file or directory with the same name.

Regards
Marco





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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-08 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-08 20:03 Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 20:19 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 20:27   ` marco atzeri [this message]
2012-07-08 20:37     ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-09 12:36       ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-08 20:49     ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 22:43   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-07-08 23:20   ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-09 15:23 notstop
2012-07-09 15:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-09 16:47   ` Steven Hartland
2012-07-09 17:20   ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10  5:38     ` Matt Seitz
2012-07-10  8:45       ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10 15:25         ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-10 16:23           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-10 16:54           ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10 17:03             ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-10 18:59             ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-11  0:50             ` Andrey Repin

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