Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A8827EF.B7C160E8@veritas.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:14:07 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Earnie Boyd CC: Matthew Smith Subject: Re: dos/unix utilities References: <013001c09475$5a80f860$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org> <20010211170532.B14860@redhat.com> <3A87E58B.6A2C3DB7@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From a command prompt, using a full path wihtout wildcards, the command works with either type of slash. Put in a wildcard, and it fails. I assume the presence of the wildcard activates globbing routines but a backslash alone does not? Is this what you mean? I think there is also a problem with the /tmp/ctm*.* form. It cannot match the file /tmp/ctm040701 because this file name does not contain the literal dot that is present in the wildcard form. Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:55:31PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote: > > >> I have found the utilities extremely useful, in order to emulate > > >processes, > > >> that we run in a Unix environment, under Windows NT. I am running them in > > >a > > >> win98 environment and then, when the process is working, transferring them > > >> to NT. I cannot see why there would be any problems. However, I am having > > >a > > >> problem with "wc" recognising that certain directories/files exist when > > >> using wildcards for non 8.3 form file names.. > > >> > > >> For example: > > >> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm*.* fails (with a ENOENT error msg) > > >> wc -l \postbox\ctm\ctm040701 works fine however > > > > > >Output of cygcheck -srv would be appreciated. Also, you neglect to say what > > >environment this is failing under. Are you trying this command from bash? > > >cmd.exe? You need to give us more info. > > > > You can't use wildcards with Windows filespecs. > > Huh? I can use wc -l /tmp/st*.* just fine in a COMMAND window. > However, I can't use wc -l \tmp\st*.*. Oh, I get it now, that's what > you were saying. > > > Cygwin is a UNIX emulation, remember? > > > > Try "wc -l /postbox/ctm/ctm*.*". > > > > True, the '\' is what Chris is in reference to. You must use '/'. > > Earnie. > > P.S.: Sorry, Chris. I was confused at first by your answer. So, I > decided to post anyway. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple