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Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 17:05:32 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: dos/unix utilities
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In-Reply-To: <013001c09475$5a80f860$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org>; from matts@bluesguitar.org on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:55:31PM -0600

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:55:31PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> I have found the utilities extremely useful, in order to emulate
>processes,
>> that we run in a Unix environment, under Windows NT. I am running them in
>a
>> win98 environment and then, when the process is working, transferring them
>> to NT. I cannot see why there would be any problems. However, I am having
>a
>> problem with "wc" recognising that certain directories/files exist when
>> using wildcards for non 8.3 form file names..
>>
>> For example:
>> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm*.*      fails (with a ENOENT error msg)
>> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm040701   works fine however
>
>Output of cygcheck -srv would be appreciated.  Also, you neglect to say what
>environment this is failing under.  Are you trying this command from bash?
>cmd.exe?  You need to give us more info.

You can't use wildcards with Windows filespecs.  Cygwin is a UNIX emulation,
remember?

Try "wc -l /postbox/ctm/ctm*.*".

cgf

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