Re: [Bug-wget] Wget on Windows handling of wildcards

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sam Habiel <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:16:27 -0400
> 
> I have a wget command that has a -A flag that contains a wildcard.
> It's '*.DAT'. That works fine on Linux. I am trying to get the same
> thing to run on Windows, but *.DAT keeps getting expanded by wget (cmd
> does no expansion itself). There is no way that I found of suppressing
> that. I think I tried everything: single quotes, double quotes, escape
> * with ^ (cmd escape char), etc.

What version of Windows is that?

> For reference, here's the whole command:
> 
> wget -rNndp -A "*.DAT"
> "https://foia-vista.osehra.org:443/Patches_By_Application/PSN-NATIONAL
> DRUG FILE (NDF)/PPS_DATS/" -P .
> 
> Run it twice on Windows to see the problem.

Did you try using "*.[D]AT"?

The problem AFAIK is that C runtime on modern versions of Windows
expands wildcards even when quoted.  So either you need to build wget
with wildcard expansion disabled (using the appropriate global
variable whose details depend on whether you use MSVC or MinGW and
which version of MinGW), or you use the above trick (assuming that
wget can expand such wildcards).  Disabling expansions altogether is
usually not a good option in this case, since you probably need it
with other use cases.

HTH