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Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
- To: "Waldor Michael \(K3/EMW4\)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com>
- Subject: Re: B20: Bug? backslashes and stars within args of ls
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 07:51:26 -0800 (PST)
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---"Waldor Michael (K3/EMW4)" <Michael.Waldor@de.bosch.com> wrote:
8<
> not ok: ls c:\\temp\\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:\temp\f*: No such file or directory
8<
Yep. This is a bug.
8<
> not ok: ls c:\temp\f*
> //i/programme/mm3/util/ls: c:tempf*: No such file or directory
8<
This is the expected result.
8<
> I would like to call ls like
>
> ls c:\temp/f*
>
> i.e. with SINGLE backslash.
8<
Will never happen. Actually the \ character is used for character
quoting and is therefore the reason you need two of them. The first
one quotes the second one.
8<
>
> Maybe there is a environment variable to control cygwin's behaviour?
>
8<
Well there is but not for this problem. Look at the FAQ for the
environment variable CYGWIN.
You could also do:
mount c:\\ /c
then you would be able to do:
ls /c/temp/f*
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