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Re: Asterisk expansion...
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: Asterisk expansion...
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:14:02 +1000
- Cc: "Robertson, Jason V" <jason dot v dot robertson at intel dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19980724154632.264.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>
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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