From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6yUrB-W4pfB@mike.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BEBE893ABDFD111AC3F00A0C96B159F5C4CD6@FMSMSX32>
Hi Robertson,,
>Hi,
>
>There seems to be an inconsistency in how * is interpreted. When you
>run, say, 'echo.exe' from the commandline you get the following:
C:>> echo *.*
><Contents of C: are listed>
C:>> echo \*.\*
>\*.\*
>
>So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape
>them in the second? And doesn't this mean it's impossible to echo the
>string:
>*.*
>from cmd?
You are assuming, that command.com / cmd.exe are using \ to escape
characters, which isn't the case. At best DOS shells would assume, that
you want to list all files in all directories, when you type \*.\* -
because \ is the path separator!
[...]
>Thanks,
>Jason
Bye.
Michael.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-25 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-23 15:30 Robertson, Jason V
1998-07-24 11:17 ` Matthias Morche
1998-07-24 12:58 ` Mike Bandy
1998-07-25 0:08 ` Michael Hirmke [this message]
1998-07-25 4:14 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-08-02 15:23 ` OT: Re: Asterisk expansion...[Was: unsubscribe] Björn Kulms
1998-07-24 12:58 Asterisk expansion Earnie Boyd
1998-07-25 1:22 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-07-25 10:30 ` Leo Mauro
[not found] <35B93BE2.2642EDA3@home.com>
1998-07-25 18:10 ` Jason V Robertson
1998-07-27 14:23 ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-27 9:00 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-27 9:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-07-27 14:23 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-27 14:23 ` Fergus Henderson
1998-07-28 0:57 Robertson, Jason V
1998-07-27 15:12 ` Michael Weiser
1998-07-28 5:54 Andrew Dalgleish
1998-07-29 17:43 Andrew Dalgleish
1998-07-31 3:03 Earnie Boyd
1998-07-31 12:10 Earnie Boyd
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