On 2019-02-16 02:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 15 14:51, Bill Stewart wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:38 PM Brian Ingliswrote: >> >>> Windows normally allows "." to be used to refer to the local machine name >>> in a >>> domain context - can anyone confirm or deny whether this works in Cygwin or >>> with >>> getent? >> >> AFAICT, the "." shortcut does not work in Cygwin. > > The combining operator for domain prepended usernames is '+'. This > is the same character as used by good old Interix for the same purpose.
That was not in question - the question was could .+$USER be used in lieu of $COMPUTERNAME+$USER or $HOSTNAME+$USER and should $COMPUTERNAME rather than $HOSTNAME be used in such contexts? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
