Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
Paul McFerrin
pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com
Wed Aug 5 00:50:00 GMT 2009
I believe this is a non-problem. The cause: human error. Doing a
cd /c/Doc*/pa*/App* is not the same as
cd /c/Doc*/Pa*/App*
Wildcard lookups are always case sensitive. I must not have been
consistant when switching between Windows.
Paul McFerrin wrote:
> Dave: Let's put this prob on hold for a while. At least til I
> investigate it some more. Something is acting weird. This prob has
> disappeared! I tried unloading everything just in case some name
> cache had it already expanded. I did get correct results from using
> latest pdksh. Weird.
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Paul McFerrin wrote:
>>
>>> Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh
>>> @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
>>> between Cygwin 1.5 & 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh
>>> that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5,
>>> the following does work properly:
>>> $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>>>
>>
>> LERN2SHELL. Try "echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/"
>> to see if
>> you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or
>> several matching
>> paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one
>> you made a
>> mistake in. The multiple expansions work just fine for me:
>>
>> $ PS1="$ " pdksh
>> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/
>> $ pwd
>> /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application
>> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default
>> $
>>
>> Also, LERN2BUGREPORT. You told us all about how you feel, but
>> completely
>> omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it.
>> Error
>> message? No error message? Boxing glove on a spring comes out of
>> your computer
>> and punches you in the nose?
>>
>> cheers,
>> DaveK
>>
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