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Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Here is a contrived example:
>
> $ cmd /c DIR $(cygpath -w hello.exe)
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 6A15-FFB2
>
>  Directory of C:\cygwin\home\knellis\dev\c\hello
>
> 08/26/2016  10:47            60,927 hello.exe
>                1 File(s)         60,927 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  218,673,360,896 bytes free
> $ cmd /c DIR $(cygpath -w hello)
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 6A15-FFB2
>
>  Directory of C:\cygwin\home\knellis\dev\c\hello
>
> File Not Found
> $

That isn't really a failure, as "dir foo" in CMD.EXE should (and does)
return file not found if file "foo" (no extension) does not exist.

-- Erik

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