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RE: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name


Thanks, but just tested:

bash-2.02$ cp tst25\%.txt tst.txt
cp: tst25%.txt: No such file or directory

It doesn't work...

Andrzej Pruszynski

-----Original Message-----
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 14:33
To: Andrzej Pruszynski; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name


--- Andrzej Pruszynski <andrzej.pruszynski@eur.autodesk.com> wrote:
> "cp" command fails when file name contains "%" sign:
> 
> ------------------------------------
> bash-2.02$ ls -l tst*
> -rw-r--r--   1 544      everyone        6 Aug 20 10:34 tst25%.txt
> bash-2.02$ cp tst25%.txt tst.txt
> cp: tst25%.txt: No such file or directory
> ------------------------------------

You'll have to quote the % I.E.: cp tst25\%.txt tst.txt

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