China DOS Union

Running `if exist a\*.* echo right` result:
Echoes "right" regardless of whether a is an empty directory
Running `if not exist a\*.* echo wrong` result:
If a is an empty directory, there is no echo; if a is a non-empty directory, it echoes "error"

It seems that `if (not) exist` cannot be used with `*.*`. What is the reason for this?

[ Last edited by crist on 2010-12-4 at 15:16 ]

if not exist a\*.*
This is a sentence that doesn't make logical sense by itself...

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