* cygwinenv.sgml (using-cygwinenv): Clarify "glob" works.

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Christopher Faylor 2011-07-15 20:59:07 +00:00
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2011-07-15 Christopher Faylor <me.cygwin2011@cgf.cx>
* cygwinenv.sgml (using-cygwinenv): Clarify "glob" works.
2011-06-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygwinenv.sgml (using-cygwinenv): Move envcache, strip_title, title,

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<para><envar>(no)glob[:ignorecase]</envar> - if set, command line arguments
containing UNIX-style file wildcard characters (brackets, question mark,
containing UNIX-style file wildcard characters (brackets, braces, question mark,
asterisk, escaped with \) are expanded into lists of files that match
those wildcards.
This is applicable only to programs running from a DOS command line prompt.
This is applicable only to programs run from non-Cygwin programs such as a CMD prompt.
That means that this setting does not affect globbing operations for shells such as
bash, sh, tcsh, zsh, etc.
Default is set.</para>
<para>This option also accepts an optional <literal>[no]ignorecase</literal> modifer.
If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is <literal>noignorecase</literal></para>