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Re: bash wildcard expansion
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, roman dot puttkammer at multex dot com
- Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:53:38 -0800 (PST)
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, on reflection, the "\"*\"" is the problem. This is not
> the same as "*", of course. And, that's what you want.
>
> I can't think of any way to tell cygwin to just quote an argument
> with ", offhand. I can't even think of a good way to fix this, if
> it is a bug.
>
And AFAICR it has always been a problem and no one has yet to find "a good way
to fix this."
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd
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