bash wildcard expansion

["Puttkammer, Roman" <roman.puttkammer@multex.com>]

I hope i'm not getting flamed for this one, but what am I missing? A 
command line argument is being expanded by bash even though it's escaped.

  /tibrv/src/examples/java# D:/jdk1.3/bin/java.exe \*
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
cmlistener/class

"cmlistener.class" is the first filename in the directory.

Same thing if i'm using single quotes to escape. Note that java.exe does not
expand arguments itself; it works as expected from a DOS shell:

  D:\TIBCO\TIBRV\src\examples\java>java "*"
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: *

"ls '*'" or "ls \*" works as expected ("ls: *: No such file or directory".)

roman

  Cygwin DLL version: 1001 / 6
  GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i586-pc-cygwin)

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