On 4/17/2020 11:01, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 4/17/2020 1:24 PM, Erik Soderquist via Cygwin wrote: > What seems a little odd to me is this. If I had invoked via: > > excel.exe > > I would not be surprised the MS Excel would launch, because it is probably > earlier in the path. But the OP said he typed: > > ./excel.exe > > So I am surprised, given the explicit path. Which leads me to a background > wondering of whether ./excel.exe has execute permission set. If not maybe > the search would continue, trying to find something on the path that could > be executed? That would surprise me a little, but I'd have to go read the > fine print on bash, etc.
If it didn't find it in the path at all, one expects (in a reasonable environment) that the complaint "Command not found" would issue. > > Regards - Eliot Moss > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
