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Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:57:36 +0000
From: Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: "ls" command  not working in windows 2008
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On 2009-04-06 12:41Z, sudhap85 wrote:
> 
> Greg Chicares-2 wrote:
>> 
>> On 2009-04-06 12:14Z, sudhap85 wrote:
>>> I tried to list the contents of a directory in DOS command prompt and
>>> redirecting it to a file.This did not add the contents at all.
>>> “ls $root/virusScanBase >> $resultfile”
>>> 
>>> As an alternative to this I tried to use
>>> "echo $root/virusScanBase/*" but this just returns * and not the
>>> directory
>>> contents(in Linux it works as expected by listing direcory contents)
>> 
>> What shell are you using? By "DOS command prompt", do you mean CMD.EXE?
>> Or is this Cygwin's 'bash'?
>> 
>> What output do you see from the following commands?
>>   echo $root
>>   echo %root%
>
> Yes this CMD.exe and $root is just a variable which holds a directory name
> and it would expand as
> (virusscanbase is a directory)
> “ls /tmp/virusScanBase >> resultfile”

What is the syntax for environment variables in your version of CMD.EXE?
Does the *nix shell syntax:
  echo $variable
work, or does it instead require:
  echo %variable%
because CMD.EXE is not a *nix shell?

It is the shell, not 'ls', that substitutes command-line arguments.
Running Cygwin's 'ls' doesn't make CMD.EXE behave like a *nix shell.
If you want things to work as they do on GNU/Linux, then perhaps you
should consider using Cygwin's 'bash' instead of CMD.EXE .

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