From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <7NT0h0OKpfB@mike.franken.de> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08/msg00623.html Hi Clark, [...] >1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask? put the following line into your .bashrc: shopt -s nocaseglob [...] >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, It is nearly the same in bash, besides it doesn't search the current directory unless you tel it to do so. You have an environment variable named PATH (upper case!), whose elements are separated by ":" instead of ";" as in DOS. Each element represents a directory, which is searched for executables. [...] >3) I would like to use cp to keep source files in [...] >time. Is there a way to make the timestamps match? touch //d/* > >Thanks in Advance, > >Clark Sims Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <7NT0h0OKpfB@mike.franken.de> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg00623.html Message-ID: <19990831234900.Aga8rRXo6-G_0tluo_2jx5bTqI2kisdggNGUM88DE-c@z> Hi Clark, [...] >1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask? put the following line into your .bashrc: shopt -s nocaseglob [...] >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, It is nearly the same in bash, besides it doesn't search the current directory unless you tel it to do so. You have an environment variable named PATH (upper case!), whose elements are separated by ":" instead of ";" as in DOS. Each element represents a directory, which is searched for executables. [...] >3) I would like to use cp to keep source files in [...] >time. Is there a way to make the timestamps match? touch //d/* > >Thanks in Advance, > >Clark Sims Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://aquarius.franken.de/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com