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Re: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name
- To: Andrzej Pruszynski <andrzej.pruszynski@eur.autodesk.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 05:33:11 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- 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
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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