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Re: Asterisk expansion...
- To: "Robertson, Jason V" <jason dot v dot robertson at intel dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:46:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---"Robertson, Jason V" wrote:
>
> 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
It is the shells job to do the globbing not the programs.
the \ is not used the same way in MSDOS as it is in UNIX the program
will only output to stdout what it receives on stdin.
This is true for _ALL_ programs.
<snip>
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