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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:14:10 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash -c
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>I'm not completely well-versed on this detail, but I'm under the impression 
>that the interpretation of "*" is different when a Cygwin command is 
>invoked directly from a Windows CMD.exe. (In a fully Cygwin context, the 
>shell itself handles wildcard expansion, but Cygwin programs have special 
>startup code that's activated when they're launched from a non-Cygwin 
>parent process. That special startup code detects the presence of the 
>wild-card character in the arguments and expands them as CMD.exe would).

In this case, the shell should still be handling the wildcards since they
are quoted.

>Chris F.: Please do write that book!

I'm negotiating as fast as I can.  :-)

cgf

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