Arguments parsing in cygwin executables

Hello. [Sorry if duplicate, previous message was sent from wrong address, so not sure if it reached.] ==Preamble== Some time ago I noticed that cygwin executables (e.g. bash, tar, echo & so on) handle specially *, {} and some other symbols in command-line, even when being invoked not from shell (

Arguments parsing in cygwin executables

Hello. ==Preamble== Some time ago I noticed that cygwin executables (e.g. bash, tar, echo & so on) handle specially *, {} and some other symbols in command-line, even when being invoked not from shell (e.g. programmatic invocation or cmd.exe). After some googling, I found CYGWIN=noglob setting, wh