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Re: ls c:/aax/*(.om[1]) stops working CygWin



On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:28:40PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> $ ls c:/aax/*(.om[1])
> zsh: no matches found: c:/aax/*(.om[1])

That's not supported by cygwin.  Sometimes it will work for simple
things, but there's no guarantee that it will ever work.  Using
mountpoints is guaranteed to work.

To quote Brian Dessent on the cygwin mailing list:

> Also, knock this off:
> 
> > cd c:/cygwin/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/
> 
> Stop using Win32 paths.  They work only by coincidence, not by design.
> "cd /usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4" is what you should use.

~Matt



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