Calling java with wildcards in classpath fails

Question

I have some jars in the current directory, all needing to be in the class path, so I want to use the wildcards convention for classpath. The command line is:

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Answer 1

I found it, under Windows quotes around the wildcarded classpath are required.

But not required if you specify jars explicitly, explaining why the second command works.

Weird.