Volker Quetschke wrote: > I noticed the following behaviour: (found by my favorite testcase ;) ) > > $ rm -rf foo* ; touch foo.exe > > $ test -e foo && echo found foo > found foo > > $ test -e foo.exe && echo found foo.exe > found foo.exe > > Hmm, how can I test if foo exists without also looking at foo.exe? > Does this count as a bug in test? > > My current workaround is > > $ find . -maxdepth 1 -name foo -exec echo _XfoundX_ \; | grep _XfoundX_ > > /dev/null && echo found foo > > but that is a bit ugly.
Much simpler than that: test -e foo. && echo found foo. The trailing dot excludes the .exe magic and is ignored on translation to windows filename. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
