Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
Paul McFerrin
pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com
Tue Aug 4 21:53:00 GMT 2009
Dave: Let's put this prob on hold for a while. At least til I
investigate it some more. Something is acting weird. This prob has
disappeared! I tried unloading everything just in case some name cache
had it already expanded. I did get correct results from using latest
pdksh. Weird.
Dave Korn wrote:
> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>
>> Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh
>> @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
>> between Cygwin 1.5 & 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh
>> that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5,
>> the following does work properly:
>> $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>>
>
> LERN2SHELL. Try "echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/" to see if
> you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or several matching
> paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one you made a
> mistake in. The multiple expansions work just fine for me:
>
> $ PS1="$ " pdksh
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
> $ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application
> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default
> $
>
> Also, LERN2BUGREPORT. You told us all about how you feel, but completely
> omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it. Error
> message? No error message? Boxing glove on a spring comes out of your computer
> and punches you in the nose?
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
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