Wildcards in the path name parameter

[Tony Richardson]

"Coetzee, Evert"  wrote
> But I'm running it from the cmd.exe command prompt. I'm not in a shell.
>
> cp: cannot stat `/cygdrive/c/*.*': No such file or directory
>
> That is the error I get now.

The shell does wildcard expansion in Cygwin (and Unix) not the utility.  Try

    bash -c "cp   /cygdrive/c/cygwin*.bat     targetdir"

from the cmd.exe prompt instead (or from your application).  (Why not use
Windows copy instead though?)

Tony Richardson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: 26 May 2005 11:42
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter
>
>
> On May 26 06:28, Coetzee, Evert wrote:
>> So my conclusion is that the * is not interpreted as a wildcard when it 
>> is
>> part fo a pathname.
>
> Wrong.  Don't mix Win32 and POSIX paths.  Use /cygdrive/c/sourcedir/*.txt.
> No drive letters, no backslash.
>
>
> Corinna
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