Andrey Repin sent the following at Tuesday, September 09, 2014 9:08 AM >That makes little sense. Could be solved, though. CMD doesn't offer a >way to distinguish between file and directory, but we have test.
Every directory contains a virtual file named nul (note: only one L; serves the function of /dev/null ), so one can test for that. c:\> if exist c:\Windows\nul echo y y c:\> if exist c:\Windows\explorer.exe\nul echo y c:\> - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple