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Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?


On 2012-4-21 3:06, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 20/04/2012 14:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are listed
(Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many of them are
*.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inconvenient to find the real
executable applications (*.exe).
'export EXECIGNORE=*.dll' is a cygwin extension to bash to tell it you don't
want to see those pesky dlls.

See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/bash.README

Cool! That's just what I need! Thanks, Jon.


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