This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: file globbing


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, James Lemke wrote:

> I've recently noticed a problem with Cygwin ls.  I did a quick search of
> the archives, but didn't get any hits.  Has anyone else seen this?
> Try: ls -dl ../tcl[7-9]*
> Result on Linux: ../tcl ../tcl8
> Result on Cygwin: ../tcl8
>
> That is, on Cygwin tcl[7-9]* does not match tcl.  I think it should.
>
> I have upgraded to the latest coreutils and still see the problem.
> Comments?

You were looking in the wrong place.  Globbing is done by the shell.
Most likely it's bash.  Check your bash versions on both Cygwin and Linux.
Also, check the shell settings (shopt).

FWIW, "*" in bash usually means "anything", not "any number of occurrences
of the previous expression" (i.e., globs aren't regular expressions).  But
YMMV.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]