Hello, When I run the program below from my home directory in a PowerShell Console (Windows 8-1) I've to use an extra backslash character as shown below or the star is expanded. Which happens only when the program has been compiled in Cygwin.
Is this a bug or a known feature? Ev. Drikos ---------------------------------------------- PS C:\Users\suser> .\args.exe '\*' * argc=1 PS C:\Users\suser> ---------------------------------------------- #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ int i; for (i=1; i < argc; i++) { printf("\n%s",argv[i]); }//for printf("\nargc=%d\n",argc-1); return 0; } -- 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