Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990825134605.4041.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:46:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: How do I list subdirectories? To: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Clark Sims wrote: -8<- > It seems that this is a question on pattern matching. > It seems to me that a directory which is mached by: > \/ > should also be matched by > *\/ > and > .*\/ > > Maybe I will understand the difference in > interpretations as I become more familiar > with Cygwin. Untill then I am stumped. > My guess is that the * is begin interpretted as a globbing wildcard instead of the regular expression wildcard and you're getting the list of files in the current directory as the pattern to match. You can test this by quoting the *. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com