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On 2/10/2017 3:03 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote:
> * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath?  I don't know.
> No files or directories are using * in the name.
>
> Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touched any.
> It shows up in mintty and ssh equally. The characters that appear vary.
>
> Some non-existent paths do *not* produce the gibberish.
>
> %%%cygpath -w /aaa/bbb/*
> C:\cygwin\aaa\bbb\

Yes, but I found something interesting when I did this:

echo "$(cygpath -w /usr/non-existent/*)" > mytemp

od -c mytemp

revealed that there is a three-byte sequence after the
output of

C:\cygwin\usr\non-existent\

and before the newline added by echo.  I guess it's
some representation of * that does not show up on the
terminal, but it did strike me as a little strange ...

Regards - EM

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