From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Bug in command-line globbing
Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:53:48 GMT
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Arthur J. O'Dwyer <ajo AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu> wrote:

> True.  On the other hand, DJGPP behaves like Unix programs: they
> generally perform filename globbing.  

As a matter of fact, Unix programs generally *don't* do filename
globbing.  The command line shell does it for them.  DOS' default
shell, command.com, doesn't.  Which is where this whole problem really
began: DJGPP wants to be as compatible to Unix as possible, so it has
to do the globbing command.com has failed to.

> Wht do you mean, "Some cases of mismatched quotes are actually the
> shell's fault"?  

In some particular cases, command.com _will_ expand/modify some of
your quoted command line input, and fail miserably. Just as one gets
used to expecting whenever MS tries to follow in the steps of Unix
traditions.  IIRC, your "backslash as the last letter of a
double-quoted string" is exactly one such case.

> What I really want is to design a 'tr'-like program which takes as
> arguments a list of hyphen-options, followed by one or two regexes,
> followed optionally by a (list of) filename(s).

So turn *off* all the globbing, as explained to you in the FAQ, and in
earlier replies in this thread.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.