How do you write scripts with portable filenames?

[luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au]

"Portable" between Cygwin and Unix systems, that is.  I'm thinking of
the problems caused in particular by command filenames having
extensions on Windows and none on Unix.

E.g. if I say "ls x", where X.EXE exists, ls will output x (as long as
nocaseglob is set).  But "strings x" fails because the file x doesn't
exist.

Is my goal of writing portable shell scripts doomed?  Am I going to
have to say "strings x.exe"?  :-(

Is there any cool Cygwin magic to help with this, like there is in
U/Win?

luke


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