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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:00:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Funny behavior with echo command in bash_login
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, B'Joe <eco94h AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> This is my bash_login:
>
> echo Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha
> echo ******************NOTE**********************
> echo Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry
> echo To completely clean Cygwin Portable
> echo installation run clean.bat in root directory
> echo ********************************************
>
>
> and this is what I get while login:
>
>
> Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha
> ******************NOTE**********************
> Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry
> To completely clean Cygwin Portable
> installation run clean.bat in root directory
> Data Mail max_mem.c mbox msmtp.log procmail.log tmp
>
> Look at the last line, bash seen interpreted my echo command in last
> line as ls command, that not suppose to be.

It *is* supposed to be.  Unlike cmd on Windows, metacharacters like *
and ? and [...] are interpreted by bash.  *****...* is equivalent to
*, and * matches all the files in the current directory.

In general, quote your arguments.  Single-quote unless you want to do
variable interpolation ($abc), in which case double-quote.

echo 'Portable Cygwin v1.0.0.0 alpha'
echo '******************NOTE**********************'
echo 'Cygwin making modification in HKCU registry'
echo 'To completely clean Cygwin Portable'
echo 'installation run clean.bat in root directory'
echo '********************************************'

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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