Re: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2012-10-20, Lawrence Mayer wrote: > CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard > > e.g. > > ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form) > ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\*  (4th form) > cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY > > all fail returning error message

Re: CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 03:06:45PM -0400, Lawrence Mayer wrote: >CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard > >e.g. > >ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form) >ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\* ??(4th form) >cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY > >all fail returni

CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

2012-10-20 Thread Lawrence Mayer
CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard e.g. ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form) ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\*  (4th form) cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY all fail returning error message 'cannot stat `WINDOWS PATH\\*': No such file or directory' Workarou