Re: Filename Globbing issues on Win32?

[Kees Zeelenberg]

The MS-Windows way of globbing is described at MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclang/html/_pluslang_Parsing_C.2b2b_.Command.2d.Line_Arguments.asp
> From this description it seems that your example should work; also native 
commands, such as dir, do expand the * when inside quotes. So possibly this 
behaviour of cp and other coreutils programs, is a bug, either in the 
Gnuwin32 port or in some system library, such as msvcrt.dll.
Other MS-Windows ports, such as Cygwin, Djgpp and Unixutils, have the same 
behaviour, so I suspect it is a bug of some system library.

Kees Zeelenberg


     From:  Adin Burroughs
     Subject:  Re: Filename Globbing issues on Win32?
     Date:  Mon, 9 May 2005 12:59:32 -0600

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I'm actually using the coreutils compiled and bundled with the
GnuWin32 and UnxUtils projects. Both projects still refer back to the
original Gnu coreutils lists. I may crosspost this thread over to
those guys if I'm not totally crazy on this. :)



And moving the asterisk outside the quotes didn't work: (ok, actual
examples from the commandline this time)

<quote>

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp "c:\Program Files\Sony 
Handheld\adn\sunrise\s
lot0\"* k:\palm\PROGRAMS\plucker
cp: missing destination file operand after `c:\\Program Files\\Sony 
Handheld\\ad
n\\sunrise\\slot0"* k:\\palm\\PROGRAMS\\plucker'
Try `cp --help' for more information.

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp "c:\Program Files\Sony 
Handheld\adn\sunrise\s
lot0"\* k:\palm\PROGRAMS\plucker
cp: cannot stat `c:\\Program Files\\Sony Handheld\\adn\\sunrise\\slot0\\*': 
Inv
alid argument

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

</endquote>

-adin

On 5/9/05, Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005, Adin Burroughs wrote:
>
> >OK, first off, I'm on Win32 (XP) using 5.3 of coreutils.
> >
> >I have been knocking my head on this and I'm feeling *really* stupid.
> >I swear, I'm unix literate, but I can't seem to get the following to
> >work without cheating:
> >
> >cp -uvp "c:\dir with space\long path\*" k:\path


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