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From: Tomas Jura <tomas.jura1@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: cygpath and star character
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 10:10:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fa873dc-e4cb-8217-5844-82db627bd871@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi

I found a strange behaviour of the program cygpath program

0 >cygpath -w "./*/*"           <--- IMHO wrong output
  \

0 >cygpath -w "./*/*"  | od -a                   <--- a detailed dump
0000000   o nul   *   \   o nul   *  nl
0000010

0 >cygpath -wp "./*/*"         <-- but this works as expected
*\*

Is this bug or expected behavior ?

Pls, answer to me in To:, I'm not a permanent member of the cygwin email 
list.

I found it during assembly of the Java CLASSPATH variable, which may 
contain the "*" character at the end to cover all .jar in the specified 
directory.

Tomas


             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-14  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-14  8:10 Tomas Jura [this message]
2021-07-14 19:26 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-14 23:07   ` Tomas Jura
2021-07-15  6:18     ` Sam Edge
2021-07-15  9:11   ` Corinna Vinschen

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