Moving with glob pattern fails on Windows but works fine on Linux
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Description
I have a part of a script which copies playwright tests artifacts from a temporary folder to a permanent one. The purpose is to copy all subdirectories from the test-results/ directory to the results/ directory.
shx mv test-results/** results/
When running on Linux it does not output anything and copies directories as expected.
On Windows it throws the following error:
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-1.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-10.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-11.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-12.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-13.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-14.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-15.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-16.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-2.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-3.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-4.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-5.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-6.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-7.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-8.png
mv: no such file or directory: test-results/playwright-8247-monitor-co-76a6b-or---Connections-tab-8247-1-Chrome-Stable/test-failed-9.png
ERROR: "playwright:run2:8247" exited with 1.
I am using forward slashes on both but possibly on Windows these are not handled the same way?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing shx mv test-results/** results/ on Windows and inspect how the mv command handles the expanded glob and path separators. Done means the command moves the intended subdirectories without the reported missing-file errors while preserving the Linux behavior; the payload names no source files or tests.
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- cli, operating-systems
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