Adding Unicode operators to D

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Benji Smith" wrote
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> Benji Smith wrote:
>>>> The key is to never never never use the cygwin shell. It's a piece of
>>>> garbage. But using the executables from the "cygwin\bin" directory
>>>> within
>>>> the windows shell... Priceless!
>>>
>>> Oh, I didn't realize that.  There is one thing that doesn't work,
>>> which is probably what gave me the impression it was broken -- Windows
>>> paths with wildcards don't work.   Like "grep c:\Windows\*.txt".   But
>>> you're right that it does seem to work for both windows paths, and
>>> local wildcards, just not Windows paths with wildcards.
>
> It's not the paths with wildcards that is the problem.  In this case, it is
> the shell.  Grep is expecting the shell to expand the wildcards, as it does
> on unix.

Read again.  Particularly this part:

"it does seem to work for both windows paths, **and local wildcards**,
just not Windows paths with wildcards".
(emphasis added)

"grep Foo *.txt"  works just fine.  "grep Foo c:\*.txt"  does not.

--bb