unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension

[Stephen Anderson]

Thanks for looking at the problem.
Unfortunately not resolved...

1. As demonstrated by the provided ruby test case, it is very possible to 
have a directory and base filename be the same. Open bash and try it.

$ mkdir mything
$ touch mything.exe
$ ls mything*
mything.exe

mything:
$

2. Even if cygwin somehow prevented it (it can't), zip archives do not 
preclude the presence of a base filename with exe extension and same 
directory name.

3. The problem is not simply exe - batch files (.bat, .cmd), powershell 
(.ps1) and others are automatically picked up by cmd.exe processing, and can 
all have common base names.

4. I tried unzip -x and it does not workaround the problem. 7z remains my 
workaround and the only one I have found so far.

5. Terminating the find -path with / results in 'find: warning: -path 
testAutoExeExpansion/test/ will not match anything because it ends with /'.

6. Terminating the target with / does not help.

7. Rmdir fails with 'directory not empty'.

8. I am NOT trying to run the executable, so the globbing should NOT 
automatically be expanding 'test' to match 'test.exe'.
I would think that the only utilities that really should do that would be 
'which', 'whereis' or shell command completion (not file completion).

Attached updated test case.

sja

-----Original Message----- 
From: cyg Simple
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 2:40 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension

On 9/1/2016 12:00 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I am in the process of importing zip archive contents into an SVN repo
> and have encountered problems when unzip-6.00 expands an archive
> containing an executable file in a directory that contains a
> subdirectory with the same base name as the executable. If the
> executable happens to occur after the subdirectory, unzip works, however
> if the executable is first, unzip fails with the error:
>
> checkdir error:  testAutoExeExpansion/test exists but is not directory
>                 unable to process testAutoExeExpansion/test/.
>

How can a directory and a file of the same name exist?  It can't and
because Cygwin stats the foo.exe to be foo then that is the filename
comparison.

> Luckily I am able to use 7z extract, which does not exhibit the unzip
> problem and even allows me to exclude the culprit subdirectory (which
> luckily contains nothing I am interested in).
>

Unzip has the -x option to exclude archive items.

> In the process of trying to solve this problem, I used find-4.6.0 to try
> and delete the subdirectory after extracting with 7z to no avail.
> Even preceding the path match with a type directory spec find gets
> confused (so did the svn commit BTW).
>

Did you trail the name with / for the delete?  The rmdir command should
work. You would use the -exec option with find to execute rmdir rather
than the delete function of find.

> The enclosed ruby unit test reproduces the minimal circumstances of the
> issue for both unzip and find.
> It is likely that this is a common problem somewhere in the bowels of
> file 'globbing' in cygwin only.
>

Yes and one that allows the stat of foo.exe by foo only so that it can
launch the application.  It has existed since the beginning of Cygwin
and I doubt it will ever be resolved without requiring the full file
name for executables.

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