bash wildcard expansion

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Dec 22 05:53:00 GMT 2000


--- 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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