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Old 07-11-2012
cygwin is not an emulator. It runs inside windows, and is subject to all the usual Windows limitations and problems. Case-insensitive filenames, for instance -- in any real UNIX they'd be case-sensitive, but it's not within Cygwin's power to alter the way in which Windows deals with files...
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Old 07-11-2012
Hmm. I need to find a way around this. This is one of the program's design constraints. I really appreciate the help.
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Old 07-11-2012
You can try VIM?

Using VIM in Cygwin
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Old 07-11-2012
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Originally Posted by GingerGiant
Hmm. I need to find a way around this.
Around which?
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Old 07-11-2012
I'll check that out. I've made a little progress just typing in the loop code directly into the console. Now it's just a matter of fixing this:
make: *** No rule to make target `Grading/Homwork 4/Doe, John/Submissions Attachments'. Stop

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Around which?
Around the cygwin windows thing. I think Scott has the solution.

---------- Post updated at 03:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:14 PM ----------

I got it to work! This is what I typed into my terminal:
Code:
for DIR in "/home/GingerGiant/Grading/Homework X"/*; do [ -d "$DIR" ] || continue; make -f /home/GingerGiant/makefiles/gba_makefile -C "$DIR"/Sub*; done

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