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Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:02:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files
- References: <30013.5407982909$1222878928@news.gmane.org>
* Herb Maeder (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:27:25 -0700)
> With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that
> the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any
> source files that have a .bat or .com extensions.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> % mkdir foobar
> % touch foo.bat
> % mv foo.bat foobar
> % ls foobar
> foo.bat.exe
>
> Same goes for .com files. And if a directory is moved any .bat or .com
> files will be renamed to .bat.exe and .com.exe in the destination
> directory. I see this with at least the cygwin-1.7.0-29 and and
> cygwin-1.7.0-30 dlls.
>
> A cygwin-1.5 install on Vista does not add the .exe extension.
>
> I believe that this should be easily reproducible. But if not, I can
> provide more details.
I can confirm that but I'm not so sure it is mv itself. I've seen these
kind of files on my iPod (where I rsync to from my USB drive) so I think
it might be the cygwin1.dll itself...
Thorsten
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