Is this because cygwin globbing is (by default) case sensitive? You could set the CYGWIN environment variable to "glob:ignorecase" to get case-insensitive behaviour.
Paul On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 17:52, Jay Libove via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > I've never seen this before. > In a Windows CMD shell, Cygwin shell expansion, for example: > ls *.pdf > > returns: > ls: cannot access '*.PDF': No such file or directory > (Indeed, any Cygwin shell expansion, when executed from within Windows CMD, > produces this error. See below) > > ls *someotherwildcard* (that matches the same .pdf files) DOES return the > expected file list. > > Example: > > C:> DIR *.pdf > Volume in drive C is C > Volume Serial Number is 8674-712A > > Directory of C:\Temp > > 22/03/2020 18:30 1.675.954 test.pdf > XX/XX/XXXX XX:XX {Any many other .pdf files} > > Yet: > > C:> ls *.pdf > ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory > > And: > C:> bash > user@hostname /cygdrive/C/Temp/test > $ ls *.pdf > A.pdf > B.pdf > {etc} > > And, not ALL of the *.pdf files in the particular directory where I've > encountered this trigger the problem... > > C:> ls N*.pdf > N.pdf > > C:> ls A*.pdf > ls: cannot access 'A*.pdf': No such file or directory > > Nor do all directories containing .pdf files produce this. Of the many > thousands of files and directories that I have, only some produce this > problem. > In others, ls *.pdf works perfectly in Windows CMD. > > I've looked at the Windows ATTRIB and CACLS of the files in directories where > this problem occurs. > They're all the same. That is, uniform across all files and directories. > Nothing interesting. > > It's not just 'ls': > > C:> cat *.pdf > cat: '*.pdf': No such file or directory > > So, it appears to be Cygwin shell expansion, when executed under Windows CMD, > which is provoking this strange behavior. > Any ideas what could be causing this, and how to solve it? > > many thanks, > Jay > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple