Re: Filename Globbing issues on Win32?

[Adin Burroughs]

I'm actually using the coreutils compiled and bundled with the
GnuWin32 and UnxUtils projects. Both projects still refer back to the
original Gnu coreutils lists. I may crosspost this thread over to
those guys if I'm not totally crazy on this. :)



And moving the asterisk outside the quotes didn't work: (ok, actual
examples from the commandline this time)

<quote>

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp "c:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\adn\sunrise\s
lot0\"* k:\palm\PROGRAMS\plucker
cp: missing destination file operand after `c:\\Program Files\\Sony Handheld\\ad
n\\sunrise\\slot0"* k:\\palm\\PROGRAMS\\plucker'
Try `cp --help' for more information.

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp "c:\Program Files\Sony Handheld\adn\sunrise\s
lot0"\* k:\palm\PROGRAMS\plucker
cp: cannot stat `c:\\Program Files\\Sony Handheld\\adn\\sunrise\\slot0\\*': Inv
alid argument

C:\Documents and Settings\Adn>cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

</endquote>

-adin

On 5/9/05, Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
> 


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