Trailing Periods on File Names
Bernard Dautrevaux
Dautrevaux@microprocess.com
Fri Apr 6 09:57:00 GMT 2001
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [ mailto:lhall@rfk.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:50 PM
> To: Randall R Schulz; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Trailing Periods on File Names
>
>
> At 02:38 PM 4/5/2001, 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.
> >%
>
> <snip>
>
>
>
> >Curious, no? Perhaps this is a side-effect of the potential
> aliasing of suffix-less names and the same name with a ".exe" suffix?
>
>
> No, this is Windows madness. It ignores periods at the end
> of file names.
>
In fact Windows not exactly ignores periods at the end of file names:
writing a filename as "foo." asks windows NOT to search for "foo.exe" or
"foo.bat" IF it needs to execute the file... This is allows to execute "foo"
instead of "foo.exe" if both exist, just to add some more fun :-)
Regards,
Bernard
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