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-- On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:07:09 John Wiersba wrote: >> 1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask? >> For example, my c source files appear as a mixture of >> .c and .C suffixes. ls *.c returns a different set of >> files than ls *.C > >shopt -s nocaseglob or shopt -u nocaseglob depending on which setting you >want > This works great! >see bash man page and search for "insensitive" > man bash produces: bash: man: command not found How do I "see the bash man page"? >> 2) How does bash search for commands? I am used to DOS/ >> Windozs programming, where the dos command prompt >> searches the path. When I am running bash however, >> I must type in the full path of any executable that >> I want to run. Is there some way of avoiding having >> to type in the full path? > >export PATH=DIR1/DIR2:DIR3:. > >note that . must be specified explicitly > echo $PATH produces: /cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin:d:/fsf/emacs-19.34/bin:d:/fsf/bin:/WINNT/system32:/WINNT:d:/CCLIB/libnt:d:/WATCOM/BINNT:d:/WATCOM/BINW:d:/util:.:d:/PROGRA~1/ULTRAEDT d:/fsf/emacs-19.34/bin contains emacs.exe but I can't run emacs unless I specify the full path d:/fsf/bin contains man.exe but I can't run man. Is the cygwin install supposed to contain man.exe? >> 3) I would like to use cp to keep source files in >> aggrement on sepparate machines. I have tried the >> following command: >> cp -v -u -r d:/cclib g: >> where d: is a drive on my laptop, and g: is a drive >> on my desktop. The problem is that the timestamps on >> all the copied files are set to the current system >> files. I would like the timestamps to be the same >> on all the copied files. This way when I copy back >> from g: >> cp -v -u -r g:/cclib d: >> I get only the files that I have worked on during >> the day. They way things stand, all of the files >> I copied in the morning are copied back a second >> time. Is there a way to make the timestamps match? > >you almost had it (just read a little more in the cp man page): use -p > cp -v -u -r -p g:/cclib d: This works great. Thanks --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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