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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:50:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: James Lemke <jim AT TheLemkes DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: file globbing
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, James Lemke wrote:

> I've recently noticed a problem with Cygwin ls.  I did a quick search of
> the archives, but didn't get any hits.  Has anyone else seen this?
> Try: ls -dl ../tcl[7-9]*
> Result on Linux: ../tcl ../tcl8
> Result on Cygwin: ../tcl8
>
> That is, on Cygwin tcl[7-9]* does not match tcl.  I think it should.
>
> I have upgraded to the latest coreutils and still see the problem.
> Comments?

You were looking in the wrong place.  Globbing is done by the shell.
Most likely it's bash.  Check your bash versions on both Cygwin and Linux.
Also, check the shell settings (shopt).

FWIW, "*" in bash usually means "anything", not "any number of occurrences
of the previous expression" (i.e., globs aren't regular expressions).  But
YMMV.
	Igor
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