But I'm running it from the cmd.exe command prompt. I'm not in a shell. cp: cannot stat `/cygdrive/c/*.*': No such file or directory
That is the error I get now. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 26 May 2005 11:42 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter On May 26 06:28, Coetzee, Evert wrote: > So my conclusion is that the * is not interpreted as a wildcard when it is > part fo a pathname. Wrong. Don't mix Win32 and POSIX paths. Use /cygdrive/c/sourcedir/*.txt. No drive letters, no backslash. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/ -- 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/
