Eureka! I checked the cygcheck output and noticed that my cygwin dll was old even though "setup" thought I was up to date. Maybe a previous cygwin update failed to complete properly? I reinstalled the base cygwin package using setup and now it is all working fine.
I guess the current bash doesn't jive with cygwin 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-16 15:01 i686 Cygwin, Thanks everyone, Andrew ----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin mailing list <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 1:13:22 PM Subject: RE: bash shell globbing not working anymore On 04 October 2006 18:08, Andy Telford wrote: > Nope. The directory was not empty, so * should have been expanded by the > shell according to the bash "pathname expansion" rules. I included the > SHELLOPTS variable in the first email to show that noglob is not set. > > $ mkdir newdir > $ cd newdir > $ touch newfile > $ ls > newfile > $ ls * > ls: *: No such file or directory > $ type ls > ls is hashed (/usr/bin/ls) Weird. Let's have a look at your cygcheck -svr output then (as an attachment, please). Hold back on the strace logs just for now, though! -- 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/