Problem with wildcard from Windows

[Warren Young]

On 12/30/2009 10:18 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>> Try "noglob" if your shell is not Cygwin-aware.
>
> Eh? The problem is that it doesn't glob when it should. The shell is
> standard CMD.EXE, ie Windows console.

The behavior you're relying on is a nonstandard Cygwin extension which 
most Cygwin users, I dare say, don't even use themselves.  It's an 
emulation of a feature all POSIX shells have, internal globbing. 
cmd.exe doesn't provide globbing services to programs it runs, so Cygwin 
by default ("CYGWIN=glob") tries to do this for you, but it appears 
there are weaknesses.

Another thing that doesn't work:

	c:\> echo W*

This should give "Windows" at least.

What I'm having trouble understanding is why you've installed Cygwin but 
then insist on sticking with the primitive cmd.exe shell.  Your globbing 
problem will go away if you switch to one of the many shells in the 
Cygwin package repository.

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