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Re: Running Windows scripts & PATHEXT


On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:41:38AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>So it seems that bash does not take into account the PATHEXT variable
>when searching for executables.  Now I know that PATHEXT is very
>Window'ish and bash need not support it but perhaps Cygwin's bash does
>somehow and I merely need to configure it correctly?

I would surely hope that bash would not be bloated to support a
windows-ism like this.

However, it seems like simply downloading the bash sources and searching
for the string "PATHEXT" would satisfy our curiousity.

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