Re: unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

On 9/1/2016 12:00 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I am in the process of importing zip archive contents into an SVN repo
> and have encountered problems when unzip-6.00 expands an archive
> containing an executable file in a directory that contains a
> subdirectory with the same base name as the executable. If the
> executable happens to occur after the subdirectory, unzip works, however
> if the executable is first, unzip fails with the error:
> 
> checkdir error:  testAutoExeExpansion/test exists but is not directory
>                 unable to process testAutoExeExpansion/test/.
> 

How can a directory and a file of the same name exist?  It can't and
because Cygwin stats the foo.exe to be foo then that is the filename
comparison.

> Luckily I am able to use 7z extract, which does not exhibit the unzip
> problem and even allows me to exclude the culprit subdirectory (which
> luckily contains nothing I am interested in).
> 

Unzip has the -x option to exclude archive items.

> In the process of trying to solve this problem, I used find-4.6.0 to try
> and delete the subdirectory after extracting with 7z to no avail.
> Even preceding the path match with a type directory spec find gets
> confused (so did the svn commit BTW).
> 

Did you trail the name with / for the delete?  The rmdir command should
work. You would use the -exec option with find to execute rmdir rather
than the delete function of find.

> The enclosed ruby unit test reproduces the minimal circumstances of the
> issue for both unzip and find.
> It is likely that this is a common problem somewhere in the bowels of
> file 'globbing' in cygwin only.
> 

Yes and one that allows the stat of foo.exe by foo only so that it can
launch the application.  It has existed since the beginning of Cygwin
and I doubt it will ever be resolved without requiring the full file
name for executables.

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