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cp (fileutils) 4.1: inconsistent behavior with .exe arguments


Try this:

$ ls /usr/bin/touch*
/usr/bin/touch.exe
$ cp /usr/bin/touch .
$ ls
touch.exe

  ## Note: isn't that clever? (cp hallucinates the ".exe" extension
  ## allowing a more unix-like syntax)...

$ cp touch "#inst.123#"
$ cp touch "#inst.1234#"
$ ls
#inst.123#  #inst.1234#.exe  touch.exe

  ## Note: ...sometimes, but not others

$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.


  ## Note: this breaks my installation attempt of gcc-3.0.4, but it
  ## looks like a Cygwin bug so I thought I'd report it.  Is this a
  ## bug?

  ## Note: i believe this behaves the same with any .exe file; I just
  ## grabbed one from /usr/bin

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