From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Bandy To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion... Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:58:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <7BEBE893ABDFD111AC3F00A0C96B159F5C4CD6@FMSMSX32> X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00538.html On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Robertson, Jason V wrote: > There seems to be an inconsistency in how * is interpreted. When you > run, say, 'echo.exe' from the commandline you get the following: > C:> echo *.* > > C:> echo \*.\* > \*.\* > > So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape > them in the second? And doesn't this mean it's impossible to echo the > string: > *.* > from cmd? echo '*.*' Strings put in single quotes are not expanded by the shell. Mike -- Mike Bandy | As cool as the pale wet leaves michael.bandy@jhuapl.edu | of lily-of-the-valley Johns Hopkins University | She lay beside me in the dawn. Applied Physics Laboratory | -Ezra Pound - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".