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From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Cc: "Robertson, Jason V" <jason.v.robertson@intel.com>, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980725181402.12991@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980724154632.264.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>

On 24-Jul-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ---"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 *.*
> > <Contents of C: are listed>
> > C:> echo \*.\*
> > \*.\*
> > 
> > So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape
> > them in the second?
> 
> It is the shells job to do the globbing not the programs.

Then why does gnu-win32 do the globbing in the case of the command
`echo *.*'?

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-07-25  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-07-24 12:58 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-25  1:22 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1998-07-25 10:30   ` Leo Mauro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-07-31 12:10 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-31  3:03 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-29 17:43 Andrew Dalgleish
1998-07-28  5:54 Andrew Dalgleish
1998-07-28  0:57 Robertson, Jason V
1998-07-27 15:12 ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-27 14:23 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-27 14:23 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-07-27  9:00 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-27  9:00 ` Fergus Henderson
     [not found] <35B93BE2.2642EDA3@home.com>
1998-07-25 18:10 ` Jason V Robertson
1998-07-27 14:23   ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-23 15:30 Robertson, Jason V
1998-07-24 11:17 ` Matthias Morche
1998-07-24 12:58 ` Mike Bandy
1998-07-25  0:08 ` Michael Hirmke
1998-07-25  4:14   ` Fergus Henderson

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