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RE: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
- From: "Shankar Unni" <shankar at cotagesoft dot com>
- To: "'Yu Wang'" <xianbird_cygwin at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:14:32 -0700
- Subject: RE: Question about Running GNU Utilities on Windows XP
- Organization: CotageSoft, Inc.
Yu Wang writes:
> Did you met any problem when you use tail.exe on a
> file with long filename.
> The command: tail paratestdatalog.out
Works.
> The command: tail paratestdatalog.gold
Works.
> The command: tail parate~1.gold
Does not work. If part of the filename is using the "short notation",
the other part shouldn't. The file is either a short name, or a long
name. You can't pick and choose a short prefix and a long suffix.
> The command: tail parate~1.out
Works, because "out" is the same in both short and long forms.
Here are my attempts with "paratestdatalog.gold":
bash-2.05b$ echo foo > paratestdatalog.gold
bash-2.05b$ tail paratestdatalog.gold
foo
bash-2.05b$ tail parate~1.gol
foo
bash-2.05b$ tail parate~1.gold
tail: parate~1.gold: No such file or directory
bash-2.05b$ tail parate~1.*
tail: parate~1.*: No such file or directory
The last one is because I guess the cygwin layer does not attempt to
treat a filename as a "short" prefix for the purposes of filename
expansion (i.e. filename expansion is always done on the long variants).
--
Shankar.
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