Hi Andrey, (I have no idea what you mean about "top posting".) `locale` gives the same in CMD as in bash, on this machine as on another machine on my network where I also checked, which also exhibits the same globbing problem under Windows CMD:
LANG= LC_CTYPE="C.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="C.UTF-8" LC_TIME="C.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="C.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="C.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Aha, wait! No, there is one difference: in Cygwin Terminal (which I've never run before today; I've always either just run commands in a CMD window, or run bash.exe first; I'd initially mistakenly assumed that Cygwin terminal was the same as bash-in-CMD, but clearly it's not): LANG=en_US.UTF-8 If I set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in a Windows CMD window, **then the globbing problem goes away**. I'm not sure how that points towards a solution, but it certainly must be a clue. thanks, Jay -----Original Message----- From: Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> Sent: Monday 23 March 2020 18:44 To: Jay Libove <lib...@felines.org>; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: shell expansion produces e.g. "ls: cannot access '*.pdf': No such file or directory" in Windows CMD shell, but works okay in bash Greetings, Jay Libove! Please no top posting in this mailing list. > Good suggestion, deleting files one by one. It's not just one file, > but it does seem to have something to do with some file name patterns. > I think I've got it. It's accented characters. > I live in Spain. Spanish has accented characters such as "Asociación". > When I remove all files containing any accented character in their name, the > problem goes away. > So the theory now is that the Cygwin argv-processing code has a problem with > áccented charàcters ... Compare the output of `locale` in Cygwin terminal and your regular console. Most likely your files have names that do not map cleanly to your console codepage, or locale is not set in the native terminal. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, March 23, 2020 20:40:57 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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