Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Message-ID: <040901beb370$1a83b1e0$05387dc2@ccox.vti.ie>
From: "Colm Cox" <ccox AT elandtech DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bug Report: File globbing in CMD shell
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:36:06 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3

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

This is true, but I believe the point Henry was making is that the globbing
finds Win style paths. It seems to me that he may have made a typo in his
mail. If under windows you try:

C:\TEST> ls tmpdir\\tmp.txt
tmpdir\tmp.txt

(.... ls reports tmp.txt exists even though the path specifier is incorrect)

Under unix:
[sundev:/home/ccox ] ls tmpdir\\tmp.txt
ls: tmpdir\tmp.txt : No such file or directory

(.... ls fails to find tmp.txt since the path specifier is incorrect)




--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com