From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Waldor Michael \(K3/EMW4\)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 07:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> (raw)
---"Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com> wrote:
8<
> not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory
8<
Yep. This is a bug.
8<
> not ok: ls c:\temp\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:tempf*: No such file or directory
8<
This is the expected result.
8<
> I would like to call ls like
>
> ls c:\temp/f*
>
> i.e. with SINGLE backslash.
8<
Will never happen. Actually the \ character is used for character
quoting and is therefore the reason you need two of them. The first
one quotes the second one.
8<
>
> Maybe there is a environment variable to control cygwin's behaviour?
>
8<
Well there is but not for this problem. Look at the FAQ for the
environment variable CYGWIN.
You could also do:
mount c:\\ /c
then you would be able to do:
ls /c/temp/f*
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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Waldor Michael \(K3/EMW4\)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.TMqsjJ3wy0k5KIV5xsfOFp86docEsfTOcAX7x8Zl6uA@z> (raw)
---"Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com> wrote:
8<
> not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory
8<
Yep. This is a bug.
8<
> not ok: ls c:\temp\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:tempf*: No such file or directory
8<
This is the expected result.
8<
> I would like to call ls like
>
> ls c:\temp/f*
>
> i.e. with SINGLE backslash.
8<
Will never happen. Actually the \ character is used for character
quoting and is therefore the reason you need two of them. The first
one quotes the second one.
8<
>
> Maybe there is a environment variable to control cygwin's behaviour?
>
8<
Well there is but not for this problem. Look at the FAQ for the
environment variable CYGWIN.
You could also do:
mount c:\\ /c
then you would be able to do:
ls /c/temp/f*
==
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1999-03-03 7:52 Earnie Boyd [this message]
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1999-03-04 8:08 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
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1999-03-03 0:34 Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)
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