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likely stupid question but name conflicts with foo and foo.exe?
- From: mike marchywka <marchywka at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:00:12 -0500
- Subject: likely stupid question but name conflicts with foo and foo.exe?
Hi,
I'm trying to copy of bunch of files from debian over to windoze using scp -r.
This was working fine except for one error where it complains foo is
not a directory
and apparently I have foo and foo.exe in one dir but foo is a directory.
I think this replicates the problem. It seems that ".exe" is confused
with no extention.
Is this true and what can I do or am I just doing something really
stupid? Thanks.
$ mkdir acrap
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ echo > x1
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ echo > x1.exe
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ cp x1* acrap
cp: will not overwrite just-created `acrap/x1.exe' with `x1.exe'
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ ls acrap
x1.exe
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ mv x1.exe x1.fexe
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ cp x1* acrap
cp: cannot create regular file `acrap/x1': File exists
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ ls -al acrap
total 6
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 mmarchywka None 0 2010-09-07 08:56 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 mmarchywka None 4096 2010-09-07 08:56 ..
-rw-r--r--+ 1 mmarchywka None 1 2010-09-07 08:51 x1.exe
-rw-r--r--+ 1 mmarchywka None 1 2010-09-07 08:56 x1.fexe
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ rm acrap/*
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$ cp x1* acrap
mmarchywka@phlulap01 /cygdrive/c/old/download/cdarchive
$
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