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<h2>16.2 How to disable filename wildcards expansion</h2>

<p><em><strong>Q</strong>: I don't want my program to glob its arguments (they aren't files
at all, but they include characters like <code>*</code> and <code>?</code>).  What
should I do?</em>

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<p><strong>A</strong>:  You have these alternatives:

<ul>
<li>Surround your arguments with single or double quotes (this is what you
would do under a Unix shell).

<li>Disable globbing for your program by linking it with your custom version
of the function with the special name <code>__crt0_glob_function</code> and make
it always return a <code>NULL</code> pointer.  See the documentation of this
function in the library reference, for more details.  Here's an example:

<pre> #include &lt;crt0.h&gt;

 char **__crt0_glob_function (char *arg)
 {
   return 0;
 }
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