[svk-devel] Bug: Wildcards are not expanded correctly on, Win32

Adrian Wilkins adrian.wilkins at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 13:59:59 EDT 2009


> From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [svk-devel] Bug: Wildcards are not expanded correctly on
> 	Win32
> To: svk-devel at bestpractical.com
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> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Chisel Wright wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:19:42PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
>>>  	svk add *.c
>> I think this is a failing of the shell/command environment.
>>
>> As I understand it, it's the shell's responsibility to turn "*.c" into
>> file1.c, ... fileN.c
> 
> This is different between Unix-like systems and Win32, I think. On Win32, 
> it is the responsibility of the application to expand the wildcards.
> 
> --Benny.

I use powershell and I get around this by doing things like

svk add (ls *.c)



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