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Re: filename expansion
- To: dbe at wgn dot net
- Subject: Re: filename expansion
- From: "Daniel P.C. da Silva" <si10647 at ci dot uminho dot pt>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 22:29:20 +0200
- Cc: gnu-win32 mailing list <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <311E5922.9F864639@ci.uminho.pt> <33EFD432.380D@wgn.net>
$Bill Luebkert wrote:
> There is a bug (IMHO) in the argument passing of non-cygwin shells.
> Cygwin assumes that the shell has no globbing ability and globs
> the cmdline. Furthermore, it ignores ' and ", so you can't escape
> it. I think I may have found a kludge around it though.
>
> Try:
> xargs find . -name
> *.pl -print
> ^Z
> or
> xargs find . -name
> *.pl
> -print
> ^Z
Other solution is to write a program, not cygnus win32, that echoes his
arguments to sh.Like this 4dos batch file: (called "sh-c.btm")
@echo off
echo %& | sh
Now, I can call a cygnus win 32 command:
sh-c find . -name "*.pl"
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Daniel P.C. Silva Universidade do Minho
si10647@ci.uminho.pt
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