Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:08:45 -0500 To: Earnie Boyd Cc: "Waldor Michael K3/EMW4\"" , cygwin users Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls Message-ID: <19990304110845.B1226@cygnus.com> References: <19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>; from Earnie Boyd on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800 On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >---"Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" wrote: >8< >> not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f* >> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory >8< > >Yep. This is a bug. Well, that's debatable. cygwin is supposed to be emulating a UNIX environment. '\' is not a directory specifier in UNIX. The glob code in cygwin does not recognize it as such so it will not expand wildcards correctly. If we make '\' a directory specifier then we break the 'quoting' capabilities of that character. So, it's not a change that will be made lightly. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com