Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Atom Smasher wrote: > ah, bash... i remember when that was the best shell... No-one's claiming anything about "best", but since bash is the *default* shell on Cygwin, it would have been helpful to mention in the first place that you're using something else. > ## cy

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-09 Thread Atom Smasher
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Reini Urban wrote: try this - http://www.smasher.org/zsh/zshrc-v0.147.gz http://www.smasher.org/zsh/ like i said... i'm a *nix guy, and there are a few cygwin optimizations in there that make cygwin/zsh feel much more like home. ## cygwin only: commands that auto-complet

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-09 Thread Reini Urban
Atom Smasher schrieb: try this - http://www.smasher.org/zsh/zshrc-v0.147.gz http://www.smasher.org/zsh/ like i said... i'm a *nix guy, and there are a few cygwin optimizations in there that make cygwin/zsh feel much more like home. ## cygwin only: commands that auto-complete with and without

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-09 Thread Atom Smasher
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Thorsten Kampe wrote: what a mess, especially when i use auto-complete in my shell. I can't reproduce that with bash thors...@tkampe[~]$ ca cabinet.dllcalcalwin32.dll cat.exe cabview.dllcal.execapisp.dll catsrv.dll cacls.exe calc.exe

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Atom Smasher (Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:23:09 +1200 (NZST)) > i'm coming from a *nix background, but i'm finding that cygwin makes > things suck less on windows. > > one of the things that really annoys me are the duplicate *.exe > commands... > cat & cat.exe &

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> Now, to anticipate your next question, '/usr/bin/cat.exe' and >>> '/bin/cat.exe' are not duplicates either. See the results of typing >>> 'mount'. >> >> That was the exact opposite of what you meant to say, wasn't it

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Korn wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Now, to anticipate your next question, '/usr/bin/cat.exe' and '/bin/cat.exe' are not duplicates either. See the results of typing 'mount'. That was the exact opposite of what you meant to say, wasn't it? /usr/bin/* and /bin/* absolutely are dupli

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Atom Smasher
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321 according to this, it looks like i should be fine deleting all "*.exe" commands _from_my_command_hash_. that's consistent with what i'm seeing on my system. if i'm wrong, someone please let me know -- ...atom

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Atom Smasher wrote: ls -ilh `which cat cat.exe` that tells me that the two commands are hard-linked; they share the same inode. I meant to respond to this as well, just in case it causes anyone some confusion. The recipe you note above will indicate that the

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Now, to anticipate your next question, '/usr/bin/cat.exe' and > '/bin/cat.exe' are not duplicates either. See the results of typing 'mount'. That was the exact opposite of what you meant to say, wasn't it? /usr/bin/* and /bin/* absolutely are duplicates of each oth

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Atom Smasher wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: There are no duplicate *.exe commands. All Cygwin executables contain the exe extension as Windows prefers. Cygwin tries to make things easier by mapping "cat" to "cat.exe", for example, which is why it m

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Atom Smasher
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: There are no duplicate *.exe commands. All Cygwin executables contain the exe extension as Windows prefers. Cygwin tries to make things easier by mapping "cat" to "cat.exe", for example, which is why it may look to you li

Re: duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Atom Smasher wrote: i'm coming from a *nix background, but i'm finding that cygwin makes things suck less on windows. one of the things that really annoys me are the duplicate *.exe commands... cat & cat.exe awk & awk.exe sed & sed.exe what a mess, espe

duplicate *.exe commands

2009-04-08 Thread Atom Smasher
i'm coming from a *nix background, but i'm finding that cygwin makes things suck less on windows. one of the things that really annoys me are the duplicate *.exe commands... cat & cat.exe awk & awk.exe sed & sed.exe what a mess, especially when