Re: Filename Globbing issues on Win32?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Adin Burroughs wrote:

>OK, first off, I'm on Win32 (XP) using 5.3 of coreutils.
>
>I have been knocking my head on this and I'm feeling *really* stupid.
>I swear, I'm unix literate, but I can't seem to get the following to
>work without cheating:
>
>cp -uvp "c:\dir with space\long path\*" k:\path

Take just the wildcard out of quotes?

$ cp -uvp "c:\dir with space\long path"\* k:\path


Cheers,
Phil