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Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:42:08 -0400
- References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010405112848.03e55210@ks.teknowledge.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:38:14AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just discovered some odd behavior.
>
>Witness:
>
>% mkdir dir
>% cd dir
>% ls -l
>total 0
>% echo "I like Cygwin" >|File
>% ls -l
>total 0
>-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File
>%
>% ls -l File.
>-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File.
>%
>% ls -l File..
>-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File..
>%
>% ls -l File...
>-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File...
>%
>% ls -l File....
>-rw-r--r-- 1 randall None 15 Apr 5 11:31 File....
>%
>% diff File File.
>% diff File. File...
>
>
>Curious, no? Perhaps this is a side-effect of the potential aliasing of
>suffix-less names and the same name with a ".exe" suffix?
It's windows behavior.
cgf
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