wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

jeff jeff@jeffunit.com
Mon May 18 16:21:44 GMT 2020


On 5/18/2020 8:55 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, jeff!
>
>> I have a directory that has some files with odd files.
>> I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get:
>> ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory
>> Here is ls output:
>> 'Highlander-S03E21-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_I-22.mkv'
>> 'Highlander-S03E22-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_II-23.mkv'
>> I am pretty sure this used to work.
>> This is not specific to ls. wc has the same behavior for example.
> Are you trying to run it from Cygwin shell or from some native one, like cmd?
>
I am running from windows 'command prompt' aka cmd. When run from bash 
everything seems to work correctly.



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