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Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:01:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files
- References: <0MKr6C-1Kl4Ya1pOX-000Qp8@mx.kundenserver.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 1 09:27, Herb Maeder wrote:
> 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.
It is. Thanks for the report. I'll look into this the next couple of
days.
Corinna
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