From: dbe@wgn.net ("$Bill Luebkert") Subject: Re: filename expansion 11 Aug 1997 20:47:43 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33EFD432.380D.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: <311E5922.9F864639@ci.uminho.pt> Reply-To: dbe@wgn.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.02Gold (Win95; U) Original-To: "Daniel P.C. da Silva" Original-CC: gnu-win32 mailing list Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Daniel P.C. da Silva wrote: > > I don't know how to pass a pattern (like find . -name "*.pl") without > doing filename expansion. Under UNIX, I would use \* , "*" or '*' to > protect the pattern from the shell. None of this methods work with > gnu-win32 commands running from a command prompt (not bash). > Is there another way of doing this? There is a bug (IMHO) in the argument passing of non-cygwin shells. Cygwin assumes that the shell has no globbing ability and globs the cmdline. Furthermore, it ignores ' and ", so you can't escape it. I think I may have found a kludge around it though. Try: xargs find . -name *.pl -print ^Z or xargs find . -name *.pl -print ^Z -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // http://www.wgn.net/~dbe/ -/-' /___/_<_