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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Jay Libove <libove@felines.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: shell expansion produces e.g.  "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:21:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <948246853.20200328152133@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR13MB087674FC4FC989DE45C41E8ECBF30@DM5PR13MB0876.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

Greetings, Jay Libove!

> I've never seen this before.
> In a Windows CMD shell, Cygwin shell expansion, for example:
> ls *.pdf

> returns:
> ls: cannot access '*.PDF': No such file or directory
> (Indeed, any Cygwin shell expansion, when executed from within Windows CMD, produces this error. See below)

> ls *someotherwildcard* (that matches the same .pdf files) DOES return the expected file list.

Adding to the previous answers, in regard to "ls *.pdf" vs. "ls *.PDF" from
native shell, there's "glob:ignorecase" CYGWIN option that can amend your issue.
See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, March 28, 2020 15:19:24

Sorry for my terrible english...


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-28 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-22 17:50 Jay Libove
2020-03-22 19:08 ` Paul Moore
2020-03-22 19:27   ` Jay Libove
2020-03-22 19:41     ` Paul Moore
2020-03-22 19:54       ` Jay Libove
2020-03-22 20:15         ` Paul Moore
2020-03-23 17:43         ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-23 18:34           ` Jay Libove
2020-03-23 19:13             ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-24  7:57               ` Thomas Wolff
2020-03-23 23:04             ` Marco Atzeri
2020-03-22 19:10 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-03-22 19:15   ` Paul Moore
2020-03-28 12:21 ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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