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What is executable or not...?
- From: linda w <cygwin at tlinx dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:50:21 -0700
- Subject: What is executable or not...?
When I am in bash, I can type a completion char for my executable and it
will
give me a list of all the executables that could complete my command.
The command completion doesn't give a complete listing of all files, but
oddly,
it does include many ".dll's", most that would seem to be
non-executable...like:
I wanted to find all executables starting with cyg:
/tmp> cyg<ESC>= #vi mode
Display all 142 possibilities? (y or n)
....
big long list deleted
...
cygfpx-1.dll cygxkbfile-1.dll
cygfreetype-6.dll cygxkbui-1.dll
cygfreetype-9.dll cygxml2-2.dll
cyggd-2.dll cygz.dll
/tmp> cyggd-2.dll
bash: /bin/cyggd-2.dll: Permission denied
/tmp>
---------
Why does command completion display "dll's"? Is this really desirable
behavior (I just wanted to find all the cygXXX commands...)? Directory
names
also show up as executables if they are directories in a directory of your
search path...hmmm.... Is this a bug or a feature? :-) Has it
always done
this?...hmph.
-l
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