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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 05:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name
To: Andrzej Pruszynski <andrzej DOT pruszynski AT eur DOT autodesk DOT com>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Andrzej Pruszynski <andrzej DOT pruszynski AT eur DOT autodesk DOT com> wrote:
> "cp" command fails when file name contains "%" sign:
> 
> ------------------------------------
> bash-2.02$ ls -l tst*
> -rw-r--r--   1 544      everyone        6 Aug 20 10:34 tst25%.txt
> bash-2.02$ cp tst25%.txt tst.txt
> cp: tst25%.txt: No such file or directory
> ------------------------------------

You'll have to quote the % I.E.: cp tst25\%.txt tst.txt

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