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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index a91e31233..e5455ef10 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +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, diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index 3b2caaece..1b9fee499 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ There is no default set. <listitem> <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> |