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Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:41:43 +0200
Subject: Re: Wildcards in the path name parameter
References: <8625BCF5F531B64492482DCD29A89440AD3BC3@efsemaexm01.emea.pfizer.com>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

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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