Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/12/21/22:38:46
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:31 PM
>>> To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
>>> Cc: roman DOT puttkammer AT multex DOT com
>>> Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote:
>>> >
>>> >I hope i'm not getting flamed for this one, but what am I missing? A
>>> >command line argument is being expanded by bash even though
>>> it's escaped.
>>> >
>>> > /tibrv/src/examples/java# D:/jdk1.3/bin/java.exe \*
>>> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>> >cmlistener/class
>>> >
>>> > ...
>>> The fact that you notice that ls works as expected should be a pretty
>>> large clue.
>>>
>>> ls.exe is a cygwin program. java.exe is not a cygwin program. You
>>> can't expect jave.exe to work well with a cygwin application
>>> like bash.
>>> In this case, java.exe is expanding the command line '*' itself, just
>>> like any non-cygwin MS-DOS application does.
>>
>>
>>I see. Is there any way of achieving the same under cygwin as the
>>following command does under dos?
>>
>> java myclass "*"
>>
>>This results a litteral asterix being passed to the class. I figgured
>>that in this case, under cygwin one of following commands
>>
>> java myclass '"*"'
>> cmd /c java test '"*"'
>> cmd /c 'java test "*"'
>>
>>should have the same effect. But they don't - the double quotes are
>>not stripped from the argument (which java.exe seems to be doing when
>>invoked from DOS.)
>>
>>Is there any way to get the same behaviour under cygwin?
>
>Using '"*"' in bash causes a "*" (i.e., double-quote, asterisk,
>double-quote) to be passed to a program. I just verified this with an
>"echoargs" program compiled with both mingw and MSVC. When I use a
>'"*"' on the command line the mingw or msvc application sees a "*" as
>its argv[0].
>
>Or, more specifically, what the programs sees is:
>
>c:\tmp\echoargs.exe "\"*\""
Actually, on reflection, the "\"*\"" is the problem. This is not
the same as "*", of course. And, that's what you want.
I can't think of any way to tell cygwin to just quote an argument
with ", offhand. I can't even think of a good way to fix this, if
it is a bug.
cgf
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