RE: bash wildcard expansion

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

sorry, my example could't have been worse: i just wanted to
illustrate that the asterix was being expanded (by the shell?)
even though it's escaped.

the problem is: when invoking

	java someclass \*

the \* is being expanded to the list of files in the current
directory (the class is invoked with a list of filenames rather
than with a "*".) AFAIK that shouldn't be.

roman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunn-Roberts, Richard [ mailto:RICHARD.R.DUNN-ROBERTS@saic.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:06 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: bash wildcard expansion
> 
> 
> It looks to me as if the reason here is that cmlistener.class is being
> passed to java.  Java does not take the extension.
> 
> The correct command is > java cmlistener
> What is being issued is > java cmlistener.class
> 
> Since Java uses the dot as a path separator, it is looking for
> cmlistener/class.class
> 
> As to why it is working in dos, I don't know that answer to that.
> 
> I'm curious.  Why do you want to invoke the Java VM with 
> multiple class
> files on the command line.  Only the first would get 
> executed, I think, and
> the rest would be treated as command line arguments (String 
> args[]) to the
> first.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Puttkammer, Roman [ mailto:roman.puttkammer@multex.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: bash wildcard expansion
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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>   GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i586-pc-cygwin)
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