Re: getting at raw command line

["Gerardo García Peña" <gerardo@kung-foo.dhs.org>]

Jack Andrews escribió:
> the shell changes arguments like * to a number of arguments.  is there
> a way to get the *?  that is, if my program is p, i want this
> behaviour:
>
>  $ ls
>  file.1 file.2
>  $ ls *
>  file.1 file.2
>  $ p file.1
>  file.1
>  $ p *
>  *
>
> i don't want
>
>  $ p *
>  file.1 file.2
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Wildcard expansion is not responsability of Unix/Operating System... it
is done by the shell (bash)
if you try

ls '*'

you will get:

ls: *: No such file or directory

and if you try

p '*'
*

You can also escape wildcard expansion in these ways:

ls '*'
ls "*"
ls \*


luck,
ge

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