containerPattern issue about azure-blob-container-download HOT 6 CLOSED

If you are on Windows, please try quoting the text like "^published". The carat character has special meaning for cmd.exe, as does '?' which is why I quoted that in the example. And regardless of platform, please look at the first few lines of output to see the actual text that abcd parsed and is using. If that includes the carat and it is not working, that is my bug. :)

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Some more info for Windows: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5254460/how-can-i-get-a-password-containing-a-caret-passed-unchanged-as-a-parameter

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Hi David,

Yes I'm on windows/powershell. The quotes do not make a difference. I'm getting the same result with "^published" as I am with published

> abcd --account <snip> --key <snip> --containerPattern "^publish"
Downloading blobs in <snip> from [beginning of time] to [end of time].
Listing containers in <snip> matching /publish/...
Listing blobs in published<snip> matching [anything]...
Listing blobs in unpublished<snip> matching [anything]...

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The third line of output shows the carat is not getting through. Per StackOverflow, it sounds like you need to use two carats and quotes like: "^^publish"

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Ugh! Sorry for the noise. It actually needs to have 4 carets in order to work per http://stackoverflow.com/a/5254713/672212

thanks for your guidance

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To help avoid confusion, I've added a clarifying note via commit 031589d.

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