CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

[Lawrence Mayer]

CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

e.g.

ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form)
ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\* Â (4th form)
cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY

all fail returning error message

'cannot stat `WINDOWS PATH\\*': No such file or directory'

Workaround:

ln WINDOWS PATH/* DIRECTORY
ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH/*
cp -l WINDOWS PATH/* DIRECTORY

all appear to work: note forward rather than backward slashes just before wildcard.


I am running cygwin 1.7.17-1 and coreutils 8.15-1, calling above commands from cmd.exe 5.2.3790.3959 on Windows Server 2003 sp2 x32.

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