Bash Feature Request

[abdulbadii]

Package name

Bash

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Request the feature:
That can have Msys2/Mingw (in Bash CLI environment) , its Bash prompt can execute immediately a file name only string put in prompt, which has
.com
file type and exists in PATH
As it's now would only execute immediately .exe file type of such that put in Bash prompt

Are you willing to submit a PR?

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[Biswa96]

Please rephrase your question. It does not make any sense.

[abdulbadii]

Ask a feature that can make Msys2/Mingw shell/Bash CLI prompt execute immediately any file name-only string whose extension is
.com
(file type) and lives, exists in PATH, as now such behavior capability only for .exe file type

We all know Windows' .com file is like .exe one too; readily get executed right off

[raedrizqie]

what happens when there are both file.com and file.exe exist in path ?

[rimrul]

The way Windows does it, to my understanding is two nested loops. The outer loop iterates through the list of directories in PATH. The inner loop iterates over the extensions in PATHEXT and the first matching file gets picked. So if file.exe and file.com exist in the same directory, the result depends on the order of PATHEXT.

For bash to still pick up extensionless scripts, we'd need to treat PATHEXT like there always was an implicit empty entry at the beginning.