On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >I'm not completely well-versed on this detail, but I'm under the impression >that the interpretation of "*" is different when a Cygwin command is >invoked directly from a Windows CMD.exe. (In a fully Cygwin context, the >shell itself handles wildcard expansion, but Cygwin programs have special >startup code that's activated when they're launched from a non-Cygwin >parent process. That special startup code detects the presence of the >wild-card character in the arguments and expands them as CMD.exe would).
In this case, the shell should still be handling the wildcards since they are quoted. >Chris F.: Please do write that book! I'm negotiating as fast as I can. :-) cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
