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From: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
To: "'Joshua Rosen'" <rozzin AT geekspace DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: How do I list subdirectories?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:03:53 -0400
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<SNIP>

> I am wondering why using a backslash anyware in a shell expression
> escapes all of the asterisks, right now..., but that appears to be
> something about bash, not Cygwin.

It doesn't.  Go to any dir with subdirs and try

echo */
echo *\/
echo *\a*/   (assuming some subdir has an "a" in it)
echo *z*/    (assuming no subdir has a "z" in it)

If you have shopt -u nullglob (the default) then a failed pattern is left as
is.

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