This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
"ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
- From: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor at bellsouth dot net>
- To: cygwin cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 14:06:50 -0500
- Subject: "ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not
- Reply-to: worwor at bellsouth dot net
"ls" finds file1 but "ls file1" does not. How can this happen?
The following example occurred just after I had renamed some *.htm files
to *.html using
an ash shell script. No such problem occurred, however, when I used DOS
"rename" to make
the same change. (Windows XP Pro SP 2)
Does Windows have some kind of special handling for the extension .htm?
EXAMPLE:
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
$ ls
_index.htm* finder.dat* lib_over.htm* setjmp.htm* time.htm*
assert.htm* float.htm* lib_prin.htm* signal.htm* types.htm*
charset.htm* function.htm* lib_scan.htm* stdarg.htm* wchar.htm*
crit_pb.htm* gif/ limits.htm* stddef.htm* wctype.htm*
ctype.htm* index.htm* locale.htm* stdio.htm* ./
declare.htm* intro.htm* math.htm* stdlib.htm* ../
errno.htm* iso646.htm* portable.htm* string.htm*
express.htm* lib_file.htm* preproc.htm* syntax.htm*
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
$ ls assert.htm
ls: assert.htm: No such file or directory <-- **** THIS IS THE PROBLEM
****
a bit of exploration follows:
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
$ ls as*
ls: as*: No such file or directory
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
$ ls *.htm
_index.htm* express.htm* lib_over.htm* preproc.htm* string.htm*
assert.htm* float.htm* lib_prin.htm* setjmp.htm* syntax.htm*
charset.htm* function.htm* lib_scan.htm* signal.htm* time.htm*
crit_pb.htm* index.htm* limits.htm* stdarg.htm* types.htm*
ctype.htm* intro.htm* locale.htm* stddef.htm* wchar.htm*
declare.htm* iso646.htm* math.htm* stdio.htm* wctype.htm*
errno.htm* lib_file.htm* portable.htm* stdlib.htm*
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_c
$ ls AS*
ls: AS*: No such file or directory
cdr@dell03 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/cdr/My
Documents/books_open/c/stdcbook_bad/STD_C
$ ls -l
total 722
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 58614 Oct 12 1995 _index.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 2177 Oct 12 1995 assert.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 17888 Oct 12 1995 charset.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 3661 Oct 12 1995 crit_pb.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 9185 Oct 12 1995 ctype.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 42189 Oct 12 1995 declare.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 2584 Oct 12 1995 errno.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 84781 Oct 12 1995 express.htm*
-rwx------+ 1 cdr None 3440 Nov 20 1995 finder.dat*
The only difference here from a correctly working directory is that the
correctly working
directory does not have execute permissions
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/