From: mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com (Michael A. Chase)
Subject: Re: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?
3 Nov 1997 06:11:21 -0800
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To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>, <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

File name expansion (globbing) under MSDOS is handled inside each
individual program.  As such a '.*' inside a sed expressions should not
be visible to the globbing routines.

Can you send an example where '.*' is getting expanded when you don't
want it to?

Mac :})
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Ron <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 19:09
Subject: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?


>I need to call sed from the MS-DOS command line and be able to pass
>the regular expression ".*" without having it globbed. Is there a way
>to do this?


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