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Re: Asterisk expansion...
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 24 Jul 1998 15:59:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Robertson,,
>Hi,
>
>There seems to be an inconsistency in how * is interpreted. When you
>run, say, 'echo.exe' from the commandline you get the following:
C:>> echo *.*
><Contents of C: are listed>
C:>> echo \*.\*
>\*.\*
>
>So why does it expand the glob in the first instance, and not unescape
>them in the second? And doesn't this mean it's impossible to echo the
>string:
>*.*
>from cmd?
You are assuming, that command.com / cmd.exe are using \ to escape
characters, which isn't the case. At best DOS shells would assume, that
you want to list all files in all directories, when you type \*.\* -
because \ is the path separator!
[...]
>Thanks,
>Jason
Bye.
Michael.
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