On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:31 PM
>> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:40:02PM -0500, Puttkammer, Roman wrote:
>> >
>> >I hope i'm not getting flamed for this one, but what am I missing? A
>> >command line argument is being expanded by bash even though
>> it's escaped.
>> >
>> > /tibrv/src/examples/java# D:/jdk1.3/bin/java.exe \*
>> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> >cmlistener/class
>> >
>> > ...
>> The fact that you notice that ls works as expected should be a pretty
>> large clue.
>>
>> ls.exe is a cygwin program. java.exe is not a cygwin program. You
>> can't expect jave.exe to work well with a cygwin application
>> like bash.
>> In this case, java.exe is expanding the command line '*' itself, just
>> like any non-cygwin MS-DOS application does.
>
>
>I see. Is there any way of achieving the same under cygwin as the
>following command does under dos?
>
> java myclass "*"
>
>This results a litteral asterix being passed to the class. I figgured
>that in this case, under cygwin one of following commands
>
> java myclass '"*"'
> cmd /c java test '"*"'
> cmd /c 'java test "*"'
>
>should have the same effect. But they don't - the double quotes are
>not stripped from the argument (which java.exe seems to be doing when
>invoked from DOS.)
>
>Is there any way to get the same behaviour under cygwin?
Using '"*"' in bash causes a "*" (i.e., double-quote, asterisk,
double-quote) to be passed to a program. I just verified this with an
"echoargs" program compiled with both mingw and MSVC. When I use a
'"*"' on the command line the mingw or msvc application sees a "*" as
its argv[0].
Or, more specifically, what the programs sees is:
c:\tmp\echoargs.exe "\"*\""
It looks like java is somehow confused by this. I really don't
understand why it should but it still looks like a problem with the java
program to me.
cgf
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