On 12/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bengt Larsson wrote:
I seem to have a problem with wildcards from the Windows command line when there are high-bit characters in a filename.A directory contains only the two files "user" and "användare" ("användare" being user in Swedish): C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 användare -rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt2 Users 0 2009-12-30 02:23 user C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls u* user C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls a* ls: cannot access a*: No such file or directory C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>ls * ls: cannot access *: No such file or directory It works in bash and dash: C:\Documents and Settings\Bengt2\Desktop\test\ttt>bash /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls u* user /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls a* användare /users/Bengt2/Desktop/test/ttt: ls * användare user I have LANG and CYGWIN set, but not having them set doesn't change the outcome.
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