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Re: dos/unix utilities
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: dos/unix utilities
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:05:32 -0500
- References: <F38Vc4Iu1B6gVs1tIzm00010695@hotmail.com> <013001c09475$5a80f860$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:55:31PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> I have found the utilities extremely useful, in order to emulate
>processes,
>> that we run in a Unix environment, under Windows NT. I am running them in
>a
>> win98 environment and then, when the process is working, transferring them
>> to NT. I cannot see why there would be any problems. However, I am having
>a
>> problem with "wc" recognising that certain directories/files exist when
>> using wildcards for non 8.3 form file names..
>>
>> For example:
>> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm*.* fails (with a ENOENT error msg)
>> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm040701 works fine however
>
>Output of cygcheck -srv would be appreciated. Also, you neglect to say what
>environment this is failing under. Are you trying this command from bash?
>cmd.exe? You need to give us more info.
You can't use wildcards with Windows filespecs. Cygwin is a UNIX emulation,
remember?
Try "wc -l /postbox/ctm/ctm*.*".
cgf
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