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Re: Problem with wildcard from Windows


Hello, I have now tried this in the latest snapshot and now it works.

Bengt Larsson wrote:
>I seem to have a problem with wildcards from the Windows command line
>when there are high-bit characters in a filename.
>
>A directory contains only the two files "user" and "användare"
>("användare" being user in Swedish):
>
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls -l
>  total 0
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 användare
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 user
>  
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls u*
>  user
>  
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls a*
>  ls: cannot access a*: No such file or directory
>  
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls *
>  ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory
>
>It works in bash and dash:
>  
>  C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>bash
>  /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls u*
>  user
>  /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls a*
>  användare
>  /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls *
>  användare  user
>
>I have LANG and CYGWIN set, but not having them set doesn't change the
>outcome.

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