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RE: Newbie questions
- To: "' Clark Sims '" <clarksimsgnu@my-Deja.com>, "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: Newbie questions
- From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:07:09 -0400
> 1) is there a way to make a case insensitive file mask?
> For example, my c source files appear as a mixture of
> .c and .C suffixes. ls *.c returns a different set of
> files than ls *.C
shopt -s nocaseglob or shopt -u nocaseglob depending on which setting you
want
see bash man page and search for "insensitive"
> 2) How does bash search for commands? I am used to DOS/
> Windozs programming, where the dos command prompt
> searches the path. When I am running bash however,
> I must type in the full path of any executable that
> I want to run. Is there some way of avoiding having
> to type in the full path?
export PATH=DIR1/DIR2:DIR3:.
note that . must be specified explicitly
> 3) I would like to use cp to keep source files in
> aggrement on sepparate machines. I have tried the
> following command:
> cp -v -u -r d:/cclib g:
> where d: is a drive on my laptop, and g: is a drive
> on my desktop. The problem is that the timestamps on
> all the copied files are set to the current system
> files. I would like the timestamps to be the same
> on all the copied files. This way when I copy back
> from g:
> cp -v -u -r g:/cclib d:
> I get only the files that I have worked on during
> the day. They way things stand, all of the files
> I copied in the morning are copied back a second
> time. Is there a way to make the timestamps match?
you almost had it (just read a little more in the cp man page): use -p
> Thanks in Advance,
You're welcome :-)
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