Sorry, I forgot the user I log in as is switching to cmd.exe. This doesn't happen in sh or tcsh, so it is probably a non-issue.
-----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gluszczak, Glenn Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 3:04 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygpath * is a legal character for ls but perhaps not cygpath? I don't know. No files or directories are using * in the name. Not sure about incorrect terminal settings as I never touched any. It shows up in mintty and ssh equally. The characters that appear vary. Some non-existent paths do *not* produce the gibberish. %%%cygpath -w /aaa/bbb/* C:\cygwin\aaa\bbb\ -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 2:36 PM To: Gluszczak, Glenn; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygpath Greetings, Gluszczak, Glenn! > Isn’t this a defect in cygpath? Looks like memory corruption. > %%%cygpath -w /usr/non-existent/* > C:\cygwin\usr\non-existent\�[W�� Looks more like private character space combined with incorrect terminal setup. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, February 10, 2017 22:33:18 Sorry for my terrible english...
