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AW: filename does not exist but test gives true back


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Corinna Vinschen - corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
> [mailto:+cygwin+job+2760557170.corinna-cygwin#cygwin.com@spamgourmet.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 13:10
> An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Betreff: Re: filename does not exist but test gives true back (cygwin:
> message 2 of 20)
> 
> On Apr 21 12:38, cygwin.20.job@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > Hi folk, I have ported a bash-script from UNIX to cygwin and have the
> Problem that test says that the file exist but there is no file with the
> given Name.
> >
> > Here come some command to reproduce the problem.
> >
> >
> > Wed Apr 21  12:36:00  556 ls -al;  if [ -e "load_evu.ctl." ] ;then echo
> "load_evu.ctl." exists;fi;
> > insgesamt 1
> > drwxr-xr-x+   2 F.Braunb Dom?nen-        0 21. Apr 12:28 .
> > drwxr-xr--+  12 F.Braunb ????????        0 21. Apr 12:19 ..
> > -rw-r--r--    1 F.Braunb Dom?nen-      285 21. Apr 12:35 load_evu.ctl
> > load_evu.ctl. exists
> >
> > When I go on in the script and working with a file which does not exist
> I run in trouble.
> >
> > Any idea how to fix it that test says the file exists?
> 
> Trailing dots are silently ignored by Windows.
> 
The problem is hat I passed the filename with the trailing dot to a Windows-Program which produced errors and corrupted the file without trailing dot.

Any idea how to fix it?

Franz


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