2018/9/11 8:05:23 -0700, [email protected]: > Right, that is a description of the shell environment on Windows and how > the java launcher behaves. > On Windows the launcher expands wildcards when evaluating classpath from > the environment > and the command line args. After they are expanded the java.class.path > property is set.
Class-path wildcards are expanded by the launcher and the compiler, on all platforms, to include all files in a specific directory that end in `.jar` or `.JAR`. In most shells you need to quote them so that the shell doesn’t expand them, e.g., `--class-path lib/\*:.`. - Mark
