From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "Robertson, Jason V" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion... Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <19980724154632.264.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00537.html ---"Robertson, Jason V" wrote: > > Hi, > > There seems to be an inconsistency in how * is interpreted. When you > run, say, 'echo.exe' from the commandline you get the following: > C:> echo *.* > > C:> echo \*.\* > \*.\* > > So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape > them in the second? And doesn't this mean it's impossible to echo the It is the shells job to do the globbing not the programs. the \ is not used the same way in MSDOS as it is in UNIX the program will only output to stdout what it receives on stdin. This is true for _ALL_ programs. == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".