CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 03:06:45PM -0400, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
>CP and Ln can't parse windows path ending in wildcard
>
>e.g.
>
>ln WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY (3rd form)
>ln -t DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH\* ??(4th form)
>cp -l WINDOWS PATH\* DIRECTORY
>
>all fail returning error message
>
>'cannot stat `WINDOWS PATH\\*': No such file or directory'

Windows paths work more by coincidence than plan under Cygwin.  If you find
something not working right with a Windows path, it isn't a bug.  Just use
a UNIX-style path instead.

cgf

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