Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20001222135338.13397.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:53:38 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, roman DOT puttkammer AT multex DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Christopher Faylor wrote: > > Actually, on reflection, the "\"*\"" is the problem. This is not > the same as "*", of course. And, that's what you want. > > I can't think of any way to tell cygwin to just quote an argument > with ", offhand. I can't even think of a good way to fix this, if > it is a bug. > And AFAICR it has always been a problem and no one has yet to find "a good way to fix this." Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple