cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files

Ralph Hempel rhempel@bmts.com
Thu Oct 9 12:49:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct  2 11:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 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.

<SNIP>

> That should be fixed now in CVS.

Might this issue also affect the operation of "install" with
cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla XP-SP3?

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00110.html>

Install seems to strip the .exe extension in the process of copying
files to the destination directory.

Ralph


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