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From:	"Colm Cox" <ccox AT elandtech DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Bug Report: File globbing in CMD shell
Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:36:06 +0100
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<snip>
>Cygwin is a UNIX emulation product, so backslashes quote the following
>character as they do under UNIX.
<snip>

This is true, but I believe the point Henry was making is that the globbing
finds Win style paths. It seems to me that he may have made a typo in his
mail. If under windows you try:

C:\TEST> ls tmpdir\\tmp.txt
tmpdir\tmp.txt

(.... ls reports tmp.txt exists even though the path specifier is incorrect)

Under unix:
[sundev:/home/ccox ] ls tmpdir\\tmp.txt
ls: tmpdir\tmp.txt : No such file or directory

(.... ls fails to find tmp.txt since the path specifier is incorrect)




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