Subject: Re: Bug Report: File globbing in CMD shell
From: [email-masked]
To: Henry Gessau <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:17:56 -0400

Cygwin is a UNIX emulation product, so backslashes quote the following
character as they do under UNIX.

cgf

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Henry Gessau wrote:
>D:\Henry>ls tmpdir/*
>tmpdir/tmp.txt
>
>D:\Henry>ls tmpdir\*
>ls: tmpdir*: No such file or directory
>
>D:\Henry>ls tmpdir\\*
>ls: tmpdir\*: No such file or directory
>
>D:\Henry>ls tmpdir\tmp.txt
>tmpdir\tmp.txt
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Cygwin beta 20.1 (usertools.exe)
>WinNT Ver 4.0 build 1381 Service Pack 4

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