Bengt Larsson wrote:
> Every port of Unix utilities to Windows such as ls, grep and so forth do
> this globbing internally.
No. Not "every port". Specifically, not Cygwin ones: they get it done for
them, by the shell that launches them, or in fallback cases by the Cygwin DLL.
They don't have any code in them to do globbing internally on Unix and they
still don't have any code in them to do globbing internally when compiled for
Cygwin. They may have /optional/ globbing code to support MinGW or VC builds,
stuff like GnuWin32 will use that, but it won't be compiled or invoked under
Cygwin.
cheers,
DaveK
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