rm on NT does not resolve wildcards for absolute paths with backslashes

[email protected] Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:05:33 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

For example, make a directory C:\test and touch a file in it test.txt

Now, cd to C:\ and...

rm C:\test\test*.* will not find the file, nor will
rm C:\\test\\test*.*

but

rm C:/test/test*.* will.

Perhaps this is beyond the scope of these tools since they are more
unix-focused.

Erik Charlebois
DB2 UDB Backup, Data Protection and Recovery
IBM Toronto Lab
[email protected]
905-413-3069