Try this: cat > foo.sh <<EOF #!/bin/sh echo Howdy EOF chmod +x foo.sh ./foo.sh mv foo.sh foo.exe ./foo.exe
The first foo.sh works fine. The second... well, it's entertaining. I have to kill the window, ^C is ignored. Now, I know one shouldn't do nasty tricks like that, but I ran into it very innocently. I was trying to make a distcc masquerade directory on cygwin; my technique has been to create shell scripts with the same name as the real app that set a few variables and run a different app with the original commandline as arguments. On cygwin, the original app was named something.exe, so using my usual technique, I created a shell script named something.exe, and kerblooie! Anyway, it'll probably work just fine to name my shell script without the suffix, but I just wanted to send a postcard from filename hack hell :-) - Dan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
