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[~]$ caTAB cabinet.dllcalcalwin32.dll cat.exe cabview.dllcal.execapisp.dll catsrv.dll cacls.exe

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

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 i use auto-complete in my

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 like there are both in the

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