cygcheck -f ... misleading as to file ownership & no relative paths

Linda Walsh cygwin@tlinx.org
Mon Feb 25 09:10:00 GMT 2008


Marco Atzeri wrote:
> /usr/share/doc/bash-3.2.33
> $ cygcheck -f $PWD/README 
> bash-3.2.33-18
> (Right answer)
===
	I guess I look at the "$PWD" as something that shouldn't be necessary
for the user to type, since having to put "$PWD" before a filename isn't how
the standard POSIX utils (cp, cat, ls, etc...) generally work.  Just seemed
particularly un-unix like...

-linda

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