Asterisk expansion...

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Jul-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ---"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?
> 
> It is the shells job to do the globbing not the programs.

Then why does gnu-win32 do the globbing in the case of the command
`echo *.*'?

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