From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-06-13T14:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: File.exists? ignores file extension on windows?

Hi,

At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:15:03 +0900,
Luke Bayes wrote in [ruby-talk:255365]:
> I was able to faithfully reproduce the problem as follows:
> 
> FileUtils.touch('fcsh.exe')
> puts "exists?: #{File.exists?('fcsh')}"
> 
> # exists?: true

You use cygwin.

$ rm -f fsch
$ touch fsch.exe
$ ./i386-cygwin/ruby.exe -e 'p File.exist?("fsch")'
true
$ ./i386-mingw32/ruby.exe -e 'p File.exist?("fsch")'
false
$ test -f fsch; echo $?
0
$ cmd /c "if exist fsch (echo exist) else (echo not exist)"
not exist

-- 
Nobu Nakada