From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Waldor Michael K3/EMW4\"" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>,
cygwin users <cygwin@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 08:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990304110845.B1226@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: < 19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com >; from Earnie Boyd on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---"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.
Well, that's debatable. cygwin is supposed to be emulating a UNIX
environment. '\' is not a directory specifier in UNIX. The glob code
in cygwin does not recognize it as such so it will not expand wildcards
correctly.
If we make '\' a directory specifier then we break the 'quoting' capabilities
of that character. So, it's not a change that will be made lightly.
cgf
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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Waldor Michael K3/EMW4\"" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>,
cygwin users <cygwin@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: <19990304110845.B1226@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.jNG8yxUbRiOvcMlitON9nLAn70E7wOkMbPDoTaFnRn8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990303155126.14113.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:51:26AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---"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.
Well, that's debatable. cygwin is supposed to be emulating a UNIX
environment. '\' is not a directory specifier in UNIX. The glob code
in cygwin does not recognize it as such so it will not expand wildcards
correctly.
If we make '\' a directory specifier then we break the 'quoting' capabilities
of that character. So, it's not a change that will be made lightly.
cgf
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1999-03-03 7:52 Earnie Boyd
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1999-03-04 8:08 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
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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