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From: Michael Enright <mike@kmcardiff.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOC2fq9F0A+k1WnQuxpcciE0F0L43UsE_aH0qnPQfNvfnP=wYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <126350824.20170211003439@yandex.ru>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn!
>
>> * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath?
>
> "*" is not a legal path name character. And cygpath expects a path.

AFAICT, '*' is a legal character in a filename or directory name on
Posix systems and Linux.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-10 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-10 19:07 cygpath Gluszczak, Glenn
2017-02-10 19:50 ` cygpath Andrey Repin
2017-02-10 20:04   ` cygpath Gluszczak, Glenn
2017-02-10 20:31     ` cygpath Gluszczak, Glenn
2017-02-10 20:42       ` cygpath Michael Enright
2017-02-10 20:47         ` cygpath Michael Enright
2017-02-10 20:52         ` cygpath Gluszczak, Glenn
2017-02-10 21:35     ` cygpath Andrey Repin
2017-02-10 21:47       ` cygpath Gluszczak, Glenn
2017-02-10 21:54         ` cygpath Michael Enright
2017-02-10 21:55       ` Michael Enright [this message]
2017-02-10 23:17     ` cygpath Eliot Moss
2017-02-10 23:50       ` cygpath Sam Edge
2017-02-11  0:05         ` cygpath Eliot Moss
2017-02-11  0:45           ` cygpath Sam Edge
2017-02-10 20:37   ` cygpath Michael Enright
2017-02-13 17:29   ` cygpath Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-14  8:47     ` cygpath Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-15 14:41       ` cygpath Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent)
2017-02-15 15:29         ` cygpath Corinna Vinschen
2017-02-11 18:19 ` cygpath Brian Inglis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-02 14:10 cygpath Jim P
2011-03-02 14:16 ` cygpath Edward Lam
2011-03-02 14:19 ` cygpath Roger K. Wells
     [not found] <pdy988306100538bcc77a8d4986@[209.128.98.50]>
2004-05-12 16:32 ` cygpath Joshua Daniel Franklin
2004-05-12 17:58   ` cygpath Dave Korn
2004-05-12 19:00   ` cygpath Christopher Faylor
2004-05-12 19:30   ` cygpath Igor Pechtchanski
     [not found] <19981114183901.22135.rocketmail@send104.yahoomail.com>
1998-11-17 12:51 ` cygpath Laurent Charles
1998-11-12 16:07 cygpath Earnie Boyd
1998-11-12 17:30 ` cygpath Rick Rankin
     [not found] <36484B31.A6089DF.cygnus.gnu-win32@st.com>
1998-11-11  8:01 ` cygpath DJ Delorie
1998-11-11  4:22 cygpath Earnie Boyd
1998-11-12  3:32 ` cygpath Rick Rankin
1998-11-10  6:18 cygpath Laurent Charles
1998-11-12  3:32 ` cygpath Rick Rankin
1998-11-13  2:57 ` cygpath Laurent Charles

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