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cp (fileutils) 4.1: inconsistent behavior with .exe arguments
- From: -CRL- Consultant Ali Azarbayejani <ali at merl dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 18:24:49 -0400
- Subject: cp (fileutils) 4.1: inconsistent behavior with .exe arguments
Try this:
$ ls /usr/bin/touch*
/usr/bin/touch.exe
$ cp /usr/bin/touch .
$ ls
touch.exe
## Note: isn't that clever? (cp hallucinates the ".exe" extension
## allowing a more unix-like syntax)...
$ cp touch "#inst.123#"
$ cp touch "#inst.1234#"
$ ls
#inst.123# #inst.1234#.exe touch.exe
## Note: ...sometimes, but not others
$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
## Note: this breaks my installation attempt of gcc-3.0.4, but it
## looks like a Cygwin bug so I thought I'd report it. Is this a
## bug?
## Note: i believe this behaves the same with any .exe file; I just
## grabbed one from /usr/bin
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