From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61777 invoked by alias); 10 Feb 2017 21:55:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 61761 invoked by uid 89); 10 Feb 2017 21:55:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:400, sk:reserve X-HELO: mail-ot0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-ot0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-ot0-f179.google.com) (74.125.82.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:55:25 +0000 Received: by mail-ot0-f179.google.com with SMTP id 73so38659438otj.0 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:55:25 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=TmrXdLPoH/XamtYkNhtBBp8J0yEFSwJTQ+AaYlje+mQ=; b=RSbfZ1nNXNxikMs2tdL/56NlPtsrPHkRcSKf6d5C6bwtHvlHvRjfmQ6LrSNR+RW5y2 4bkKr9kvvuQ19Xi0w4/MYT9n3WF/KSpfcJQ2ZTv2byDZRQDDx2pWiMqjd7td/QzG7g2j 3zSRLz+4ZUNce3BTtwWDjiKpuL2HauYoTmUOe2jF2kyCaMr4Ba2uave00LF+ZvS+yI9j lVNmxanbPn3VqyJm15MQAYOUWOBNx214YkGT2HWM5VqhK7ju1CyRFFIqaIbh9liBJ8fy NhiElFdAJKOKvLlzSUbEVX1POdWSIWgrNzmTyWjOm5NIuWUekzW3v8NTOIW4gf017qLH N2/A== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nD9Y9pRKQukdUGfMOmUFRAKcCEcDK1cmteTByWxds92027G7gqsFbvmnOwAWN4O2AQs37MKKU/Vnim8g== X-Received: by 10.157.35.20 with SMTP id j20mr6921950otb.167.1486763723797; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:55:23 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.12.166 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:55:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <126350824.20170211003439@yandex.ru> References: <91DCAC3CB99C724EB365BB64677FBE7B139A86@MX204CL04.corp.emc.com> <151946397.20170210223617@yandex.ru> <91DCAC3CB99C724EB365BB64677FBE7B139AF9@MX204CL04.corp.emc.com> <126350824.20170211003439@yandex.ru> From: Michael Enright Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygpath To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple