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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: How do I list subdirectories?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990825134605.4041.rocketmail@send205.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990831234900.zUUQYdHdo7lgeO-IOCULswmkBXvjFO_Lss_WzriMDFo@z> (raw)

---  Clark Sims  <clarksimsgnu@my-Deja.com> wrote:
-8<-
> It seems that this is a question on pattern matching.
> It seems to me that a directory which is mached by:
> \/
> should also be matched by
> *\/
> and 
> .*\/
> 
> Maybe I will understand the difference in
> interpretations as I become more familiar
> with Cygwin. Untill then I am stumped.
> 

My guess is that the * is begin interpretted as a globbing wildcard instead of
the regular expression wildcard and you're getting the list of files in the
current directory as the pattern to match.  You can test this by quoting the *.
===
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             reply	other threads:[~1999-08-31 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-25  6:44 Earnie Boyd [this message]
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Earnie Boyd
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-08-25 14:23 13mb80000-HallM(DR3132)37x10
1999-08-31 23:49 ` 13mb80000-HallM(DR3132)37x10
1999-08-25 13:41 13mb80000-HallM(DR3132)37x10
1999-08-31 23:49 ` 13mb80000-HallM(DR3132)37x10
1999-08-25 10:04 John Wiersba
1999-08-25 12:07 ` Joshua Rosen
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Joshua Rosen
1999-08-31 23:49 ` John Wiersba
1999-08-25  8:06 John Wiersba
1999-08-31 23:49 ` John Wiersba
1999-08-25  6:10  Clark Sims 
1999-08-25  7:36 ` Keith Starsmeare
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Keith Starsmeare
1999-08-25  9:26 ` Joshua Rosen
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Joshua Rosen
1999-08-25 18:15 ` Ajit George
1999-08-26 12:25   ` Josh Baudhuin
1999-08-31 23:49     ` Josh Baudhuin
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Ajit George
1999-08-31 23:49 `  Clark Sims 
1999-08-25  5:24 Earnie Boyd
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-08-25  5:13  Clark Sims 
1999-08-25  5:20 ` Kim Poulsen
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Kim Poulsen
1999-08-31 23:49 `  Clark Sims 

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