I have a directory that has some files with odd files. I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get: ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory Here is ls output: 'Highlander-S03E21-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_I-22.mkv' 'Highlander-S03E22-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_II-23.mkv' I am pretty sure this used to work. This is not specific to ls. wc has the same behavior for example. cygcheck.out is enclosed. thanks, jeff