Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe

[Volker Quetschke <quetschke at scytek dot de>]

> > > > I have the following problem with tcsh:
> > > >
> > > > tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given.  whoami is
> > > > only an example, this also happens to other programs.
> > > >
> > > > [quetschke@Macros ~]$ which whoami
> > > > /usr/bin/whoami
> > > > [quetschke@Macros ~]$ which whoami.exe
> > > > whoami.exe: Command not found.
> > > > (snip)
> > >
> > > That's by design.
> >
> > You mean the grand design that leads earth and all its inhabitants
> > to eternal bliss?
> >
> > And if so, it seems to have a flaw:
> >
> > [quetschke@Macros ~]$ which cmd.exe
> > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe
> > [quetschke@Macros ~]$ which cmd
> > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd
> >
> > Care to elaborate where the difference comes from?
> >
> > Why should I not be allowed to start a program with it's
> > real name? And why does it work sometimes?
>
> Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only
> starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the
> internal hash table.  The internal hash table stores the application
> names w/o .exe suffix.
And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this:

Put progA.exe in /mytestexedir and add that to your PATH.

Start a tcsh and type "prog<TAB>"
[quetschke@Macros ~]$ prog
progA    progman

Aha progA, good try this.

[quetschke@Macros ~]$ progA
progA: Command not found.

Hmmm, try proga:

[quetschke@Macros ~]$ proga
(here will be the output of progA.exe)

Well, better don't use mixed cases.

> If you need something different: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
The maintainer might think about removing "strlwr(dp->d_name);"
from line 776 of sh.exec.c .

Oh and somehow tcsh's hash cannot handle directories with very many
files (i.e. /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/) therefore it doesn't seem
to hash them and does a real lookup instead. (I didn't look hard enough
at the code to really proove this, but just copy everything from
 /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ into /mytestexedir/ and you will see
that proga progA.exe proga.exe can now be found and accessed. Just like
cmd CMD cmd.exe CMD.EXE .... )

Volker

P.S.:
$ ll /mytestexedir/ | wc -l
2051

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