From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:34:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00040.html If one combines backslashes and stars within filenames as argument for ls, the stars are NOT expanded if they occur next to a backslash: (C:/temp/fdr is a directory containing some files.) ok: ls c:/temp/fdr ok: ls c:/temp/f* ok: ls c:\\temp\\fdr ok: ls c:\temp\fdr not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f* //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory not ok: ls c:\temp\f* //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:tempf*: No such file or directory ok: ls c:\\temp/f* I'm running ls within cmd.exe from NT 4.0 I would like to call ls like ls c:\temp/f* i.e. with SINGLE backslash. Maybe there is a environment variable to control cygwin's behaviour? M. Waldor -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00040.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.ewE2R45ZLgsMwZLYmdPvk99MrqykPLy7xX0YVMYKv_s@z> If one combines backslashes and stars within filenames as argument for ls, the stars are NOT expanded if they occur next to a backslash: (C:/temp/fdr is a directory containing some files.) ok: ls c:/temp/fdr ok: ls c:/temp/f* ok: ls c:\\temp\\fdr ok: ls c:\temp\fdr not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f* //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory not ok: ls c:\temp\f* //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:tempf*: No such file or directory ok: ls c:\\temp/f* I'm running ls within cmd.exe from NT 4.0 I would like to call ls like ls c:\temp/f* i.e. with SINGLE backslash. Maybe there is a environment variable to control cygwin's behaviour? M. Waldor -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com