Dave Korn wrote: > > Presumably the reason that this behaviour is new is that there used to be > a bug that stopped it even attempting to recurse those dirs, because nothing > with '*' in it could ever be a valid filename. > > > cheers, > DaveK
So there where does the problem lie? Is it that cygwin doesn't support "*" as a file name? Or is it a limitation of Windows that is inherited by Cygwin? IIRC "*" is a perfectly valid Posix file name and I can create it on any other Posix compliant platform by simply running "touch \*". Find version 4.1.7 and prior had no problems handling it. I am still using the older version for that reason. Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/