On Jul 14 15:30, Eric Blake wrote: > Karl M <karlm30 <at> hotmail.com> writes: > > > I just noticed while looking around after updating dash that "ls /bin/*sh" > does not find bash and dash, but > > it does on my Fedora core 6 machine at work. I see the issue in both 1.5 > > and > 1.7, attached is an example in > > cygwin 1.7. > > [http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL] > > The issue is not ls, but glob() and fnmatch(), which do not have the same > .exe > magic as other functions. In short, fnmatch is merely comparing the pattern > against the values returned by readdir(). Either we could teach readdir() to > omit .exe (similar to how open() and stat() recognize 'ash' as a synonym > for 'ash.exe'), or teach the pattern matchers to to ignore the .exe returned > by > readdir() (but still allow searches like *.exe to work). I'm sure that > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
Hmm, both ideas sound nice. Probably not for Cygwin 1.7.1, but it's something we could explore in a later release. Both together might be especially helpful. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
