[mtools] mtools 3.9.9 handles special charaters wrong?

[andreas thorn]

(Sorry if this has been discussed before. I did not find any previous posting 
about anything relating to this except for the the recent thread about 
supporting japanese characters in filenames.)

I am using mattrib 3.9.9 with the batch mode attribute (-p) to modify file 
attributes on a FAT32 partition (Windows XP) and mattrib seems to be handling 
filenames containing $ incorrectly.

1) I use;
  mattrib -/ -p c:* >> batchfile.sh

2) And then when I do;
  sh batchfile.sh

I get alot of errors on files containing $

It seems mattrib wants to do the following;
  mattrib +h "C:/windows/$NtUninstallQ327979$/spuninst/spuninst.bat"

When it really should do;
  mattrib +h "C:/windows/\$NtUninstallQ327979\$/spuninst/spuninst.bat"

since $ is a special char in bash/csh

kind regards
Andreas



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