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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files
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On Oct  2 11:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct  1 09:27, Herb Maeder wrote:
> > With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that
> > the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any
> > source files that have a .bat or .com extensions.
> > 
> > To reproduce:
> >     
> >    % mkdir foobar
> >    % touch foo.bat
> >    % mv foo.bat foobar
> >    % ls foobar
> >    foo.bat.exe
> >    
> > Same goes for .com files.  And if a directory is moved any .bat or .com
> > files will be renamed to .bat.exe and .com.exe in the destination
> > directory.  I see this with at least the cygwin-1.7.0-29 and and
> > cygwin-1.7.0-30 dlls.
> > 
> > A cygwin-1.5 install on Vista does not add the .exe extension.
> > 
> > I believe that this should be easily reproducible.
> 
> It is.  Thanks for the report.  I'll look into this the next couple of
> days.

That should be fixed now in CVS.


Corinna

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