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Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:08:45 -0500
- Cc: "Waldor Michael K3/EMW4\"" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>, cygwin users <cygwin@cygnus.com>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---"Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com> wrote:
>8<
>> not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f*
>> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory
>8<
>
>Yep. This is a bug.
Well, that's debatable. cygwin is supposed to be emulating a UNIX
environment. '\' is not a directory specifier in UNIX. The glob code
in cygwin does not recognize it as such so it will not expand wildcards
correctly.
If we make '\' a directory specifier then we break the 'quoting' capabilities
of that character. So, it's not a change that will be made lightly.
cgf
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