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It has both. I use it all day at work (and I use the bash shell). Jerry Feldman wrote, On 11/13/2008 10:27 PM: > If I recall it was ksh. > On 11/13/2008 10:31 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> I'm pretty sure the cywin shell actually is bash. >> >> >> Jerry Feldman wrote: >> >>> That's a good point, but I don't think that the '. script' applies to >>> CYGWIN as AFAIK, CYGWIN does not use BASH. >>> >>> On 11/12/2008 04:45 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >>> >>>> Jerry Feldman wrote: >>>> >>>>> Gary Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ...it took me a day to figure out you needed a . in front of it to >>>>>> get it to execute. >>>>>> >>>>> Usually, the current directory is not included because of well >>>>> documented hacks. So, when you type a command name, it will only >>>>> search the $PATH. To run something from any directory not in $PATH >>>>> you need the full path (beginning with /) or a relative path >>>>> beginning with ./. $HOME and ~ are essentially full paths. >>>>> >>>> The OP might have been referring to: >>>> >>>> % ./script >>>> >>>> providing script was marked as executable, in which case your >>>> explanation applies, or he could have been referring to: >>>> >>>> % . script >>>> >>>> which is just a shortcut for: >>>> >>>> % source script >>>> >>>> -Tom >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org >>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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