-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Eibach on 6/28/2005 7:14 AM: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jun 28 14:46 CD0.dat > -rw-r--r-- 1 24K Jun 28 14:46 CD 1 - Multimedia.dat > -rw-r--r-- 1 2.9K Jun 28 14:46 CD 2 - Multimedia.dat ... > ls -hog "CD*[12]*" > > WORKS. > But why? > After the 'CD', what character is this in Cygwin? > It seems, it's not a valid character at all!
HINT - ls -Q shows a quoted representation of filenames, including those mystery characters that aren't spaces. But since Windows doesn't allow tabs in filenames, and I doubt you are using a managed mount, it might very well be a space. Another thing to remember is that * filename expansion only works if the * is not quoted, so try: ls -hog "CD "*[12]* rather than ls -hog "CD *[12]*" > Needless to say that scripts containing > > for i in `ls *.dat*`; do .... > > will NOT work, Because you are typing too much (and by the way, this issue of scripting vs. filenames with whitespace is not unique to cygwin). The shorter version below does what you want (since filename expansion occurs after word splitting), and is faster to boot (one less process)! for i in *.dat*; do echo "$i" - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCwVKL84KuGfSFAYARAkvEAJ0QyChd9KoF7sEGf2QaPMcKZTfCYQCg1F3d g78arm8H5en6pGoZpJjuswk= =cM2d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
