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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next prev parent 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
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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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