* Herb Maeder (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:27:25 -0700) > 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. > > To reproduce: > > % mkdir foobar > % touch foo.bat > % mv foo.bat foobar > % ls foobar > foo.bat.exe > > Same goes for .com files. And if a directory is moved any .bat or .com > files will be renamed to .bat.exe and .com.exe in the destination > directory. I see this with at least the cygwin-1.7.0-29 and and > cygwin-1.7.0-30 dlls. > > A cygwin-1.5 install on Vista does not add the .exe extension. > > I believe that this should be easily reproducible. But if not, I can > provide more details.
I can confirm that but I'm not so sure it is mv itself. I've seen these kind of files on my iPod (where I rsync to from my USB drive) so I think it might be the cygwin1.dll itself... Thorsten -- 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/
