Thanks, but just tested: bash-2.02$ cp tst25\%.txt tst.txt cp: tst25%.txt: No such file or directory It doesn't work... Andrzej Pruszynski -----Original Message----- From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ] Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 14:33 To: Andrzej Pruszynski; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: B20: Cp fails while "%" sign is in file name --- Andrzej Pruszynski <andrzej.pruszynski@eur.autodesk.com> wrote: > "cp" command fails when file name contains "%" sign: >> ------------------------------------ > bash-2.02$ ls -l tst* > -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 6 Aug 20 10:34 tst25%.txt > bash-2.02$ cp tst25%.txt tst.txt > cp: tst25%.txt: No such file or directory > ------------------------------------ You'll have to quote the % I.E.: cp tst25\%.txt tst.txt === Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > Newbies, please visit < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html > (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com