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Re: Bug in arguments in console


Am 25.09.2016 um 13:11 schrieb David Stacey:
On 25/09/16 12:00, Bengt Larsson wrote:
C:\Users\Bengt\Desktop\src\mg2a\temp>\cygwin64\bin\echo åäö
åäö

C:\Users\Bengt\Desktop\src\mg2a\temp>\cygwin64\bin\echo "åäö"
"åäö"

(the quote marks are left in)

C:\Users\Bengt\Desktop\src\mg2a\temp>ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt None  0 Sep  7 01:07 blah.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt None 23 Sep  7 04:53 versions
-rw-r--r-- 1 Bengt None  0 Sep  7 11:05 åäö.txt

C:\Users\Bengt\Desktop\src\mg2a\temp>ls *.txt
ls: cannot access '*.txt': No such file or directory

It looks as if you're using a Windows command prompt rather than Bash. Both 'problems' are actually a feature of the command prompt. Try again from a Bash shell.
He's talking about an interworking issue between Windows cmd and cygwin (which isn't completely out of scope of cygwin); and in fact, there has been a recent change, look for the mail thread "pass arguments enclosed with double quotes from bash shell to windows program". In fact, with two files, one of them containing non-ASCII characters, like ab.txt and äö.txt, the simplified test case
C:\whatever>echo *.txt
displays this with cygwin 2.5.2:
ab.txt äö.txt
and this with cygwin 2.6.0:
*.txt

Considering that the change, as I remember, was a quite successful workaround for problems with quote marks, it may be considered a trade-off with changed bias, rather than a bug, however :)
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Thomas

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