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Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Cygwin isn't scanning command lines looking for backslashes to scold you
>> about.
> 
> Glad to hear it
> 
>>  The line in question was somehow used as an argument to open()
>> or stat() or access() or some other function which takes a filename
>> argument.
> 
> Got it.   So the bug is not in Cygwin, but in some shell function in
> the completion setup, which is passing an awk program incorrectly,
> causing awk to treat the program text as a filename.
> 

  It is maybe getting globbed on the command-line because not protected by
quoting and it contains pattern match chars?

    cheers,
      DaveK




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