Eli Zaretskii wrote: > there's another subtlety in Windows globbing of wildcards: it > matches both the "normal" file names and their 8+3 aliases. > Therefore, "????????" (8 ? characters) will match every file without > an extension, and "????????.???" will match all the files. But > perhaps the most surprising consequence of this is something this guy > bumped into: > > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/is-this-a-known-problem-with-windows-wildcard/fbd381a5-bb80-e011-9b4b-68b599b31bf5
Oh really. When I tried to list all files that end in '1', I get: C:\>dir *1 Datenträger in Laufwerk C: ist Local Disk Volumeseriennummer: 7074-65BF Verzeichnis von C:\ 28.03.2009 03:33 <DIR> 3f2f406460a40ccd4dd45efd1a9a9a7c 09.06.2011 02:30 <DIR> cygwin17b 28.04.2011 23:21 <DIR> Dokumente und Einstellungen 14.04.2012 01:44 <DIR> Programme 08.11.2009 03:40 1.024 .rnd This is *so* broken. Bruno
