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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:30:54 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Cc: roman DOT puttkammer AT multex DOT com
Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion
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In-Reply-To: <2CB1272B2212D211974D00805FCB57420AFAFBE5@MSEXCHANGE>; from roman.puttkammer@multex.com on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:40:02PM -0500

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote:
>
>I hope i'm not getting flamed for this one, but what am I missing? A 
>command line argument is being expanded by bash even though it's escaped.
>
>  /tibrv/src/examples/java# D:/jdk1.3/bin/java.exe \*
>  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>cmlistener/class
>
>"cmlistener.class" is the first filename in the directory.
>
>Same thing if i'm using single quotes to escape. Note that java.exe does not
>expand arguments itself; it works as expected from a DOS shell:
>
>  D:\TIBCO\TIBRV\src\examples\java>java "*"
>  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: *
>
>"ls '*'" or "ls \*" works as expected ("ls: *: No such file or directory".)
>
>roman
>
>  Cygwin DLL version: 1001 / 6
>  GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i586-pc-cygwin)

The fact that you notice that ls works as expected should be a pretty
large clue.

ls.exe is a cygwin program.  java.exe is not a cygwin program.  You
can't expect jave.exe to work well with a cygwin application like bash.
In this case, java.exe is expanding the command line '*' itself, just
like any non-cygwin MS-DOS application does.

cgf

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