[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47950] glob and dir functions are unable to escape square bracket characters in Windows

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #38, bug #47950 (project octave):

With Lachlan's patch from comment #34, I get this (the OP's thing):

## cd to c:/tmp
>> status = mkdir ('c:\[test]')
status = 1
>> cd 'c:\[test]'
>> status = mkdir ('[test2]')
status = 1
>> cd c:/tmp
>> dir \[test]
error: Invalid call to test.  Correct usage is:

 -- test NAME
:
<snip>
:
>> dir /[test]
warning: dir: nonexistent directory '/[test]'
warning: called from
    dir at line 153 column 5
>> dir c:/[test]
.        ..       [test2]
>> dir c:\[test]
.        ..       [test2]
>>


from which I conclude:
(1) That this bug has been fixed.

(2) Apparently (I didn't know that) on Windows one needs to add the drive
letter + colon to refer to files/directories in the root of a drive.

Do you guys want me to try the latest patch, or are you sufficiently confident
to just push?


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