Re: $PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?

SOLUTION: It has been kindly brought to my attention by two people that $PATHEXT is a Windows-only phenomena, and also that cygwin's bash doesn't support it. I was fooling myself because I used to use the MKS Toolkit (at a previous job), and their Korn shell does support PATHEXT. Thanks! --

Re: $PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Mark Molloy on 4/28/2005 1:42 PM: > # > # I can't seem to execute "testScript.sh" without > # specifying its extension: > # > $ testScript > bash: testScript: command not found > > # > # What am I missing to be able to run a script from

RE: $PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?

> # > # I can't seem to execute "testScript.sh" without # > specifying its extension: > # > $ testScript > bash: testScript: command not found > > # > # Although the file is there and executable: > # > $ ls -lt testScript.* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 Owner None 43 Apr 28 11:10 testScript.sh > > # > # ...an

$PATHEXT not sufficient to run script from BASH without specifying extension on Windows XP?

# # I can't seem to execute "testScript.sh" without # specifying its extension: # $ testScript bash: testScript: command not found # # Although the file is there and executable: # $ ls -lt testScript.* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Owner None 43 Apr 28 11:10 testScript.sh # # ...and it runs when the extension *