Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/07/25/09:49:47
On 24-Jul-1998, Michael Hirmke <mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de> wrote:
> Hi Robertson,,
>
> >There seems to be an inconsistency in how * is interpreted. When you
> >run, say, 'echo.exe' from the commandline you get the following:
> C:>> echo *.*
> ><Contents of C: are listed>
> C:>> echo \*.\*
> >\*.\*
> >
> >So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape
> >them in the second? And doesn't this mean it's impossible to echo the
> >string:
> >*.*
> >from cmd?
>
> You are assuming, that command.com / cmd.exe are using \ to escape
> characters, which isn't the case.
No; he is assuming that gnu-win32 should use \ to escape characters.
After all, it is gnu-win32 that is doing the globbing (expanding the
wildcards), not command.com or cmd.exe.
However, gnu-win32 uses quotes rather than \ to escape the globbing
mechanism. This seems like a reasonable design choice, given the
use of "\" in DOS style path names.
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