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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:55:23 -0800
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn!
>
>> * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath?
>
> "*" is not a legal path name character. And cygpath expects a path.

AFAICT, '*' is a legal character in a filename or directory name on
Posix systems and Linux.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words

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