From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: *argv[] help!
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 18:30:54 -0500
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As a followup to this thread, I've written a couple of programs that
accept wildcards on the command line, and specify some sort of "target"
for an operation to be performed on these wildcards.  It might seem like
there's no way to tell, after expansion, which arguments are the sources
and which is the target, but that's not true at all.

If your program is of the form:  "foo <source(s)> <target>"; i.e., "copy
*.c ../backup", then the last argument on the command line will always
be the target, no matter how the source wildcard(s) were expanded.

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