Dave Korn wrote: >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.
It depends on what you mean by "internally". I didn't mean it's in the source code for ls(1) etc. I mean it from a users viewpoint, ie it isn't already done by the shell for the application when it starts up. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
