Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

24 Jul 1998 22:38:43 -0700
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To: "Robertson, Jason V" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

---"Robertson, Jason V"  wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> 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

It is the shells job to do the globbing not the programs.

the \ is not used the same way in MSDOS as it is in UNIX the program
will only output to stdout what it receives on stdin.

This is true for _ALL_ programs.

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