I have the following problem with tcsh: tcsh doesn't find the program if the .exe extension is given. whoami is only an example, this also happens to other programs.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami /usr/bin/whoami [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which whoami.exe whoami.exe: Command not found. (snip)That's by design.You mean the grand design that leads earth and all its inhabitants to eternal bliss? And if so, it seems to have a flaw: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which cmd.exe /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd.exe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which cmd /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd Care to elaborate where the difference comes from? Why should I not be allowed to start a program with it's real name? And why does it work sometimes?Dunno why it prints cmd.exe but by design (minus flaws) tcsh only starts applications given w/o path if the application is in the internal hash table. The internal hash table stores the application names w/o .exe suffix.
And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this: Put progA.exe in /mytestexedir and add that to your PATH. Start a tcsh and type "prog<TAB>" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ prog progA progman Aha progA, good try this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ progA progA: Command not found. Hmmm, try proga: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ proga (here will be the output of progA.exe) Well, better don't use mixed cases.
If you need something different: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
The maintainer might think about removing "strlwr(dp->d_name);" from line 776 of sh.exec.c . Oh and somehow tcsh's hash cannot handle directories with very many files (i.e. /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/) therefore it doesn't seem to hash them and does a real lookup instead. (I didn't look hard enough at the code to really proove this, but just copy everything from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ into /mytestexedir/ and you will see that proga progA.exe proga.exe can now be found and accessed. Just like cmd CMD cmd.exe CMD.EXE .... ) Volker P.S.: $ ll /mytestexedir/ | wc -l 2051 -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
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