From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fergus Henderson To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Cc: "Robertson, Jason V" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion... Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <19980725181402.12991@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980724154632.264.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00553.html On 24-Jul-1998, Earnie Boyd 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 *.* > > > > 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 *.*'? -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: < http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh > | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".