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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:02:07 -0400
From: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
To: Colm Cox <ccox AT elandtech DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug Report: File globbing in CMD shell
Message-ID: <19990610150207.A25538@cygnus.com>
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In-Reply-To: <040901beb370$1a83b1e0$05387dc2@ccox.vti.ie>; from Colm Cox on Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:36:06PM +0100

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:36:06PM +0100, Colm Cox wrote:
><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)

If you created a file called 'tmpdir\tmp.txt' on Solaris then this would
work similarly to cygwin.  Under Win32 tmpdir\\tmp.txt does exist.  The
\\ is translated to \ so this becomse tmpdir\tmp.txt.  The filename is not
globbed unless unquoted wildcard characters are seen.

cgf

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