Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:55:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: /? command line args being altered by DJGPP
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> > In comes another Unixism: the shell filenaming globbing. ...
> > 
> > Only if no matching filenames are found, the pattern (including ? and
> > *) will be passed to the subprogram, instead.
> 
> Note that no shells that I'm aware of (certainly not the most popular
> ones) do this; if there is no match to the glob, either nothing will be
> past (it will evaluate to null) or the shell will return an error and
> not execute the command.  If you actually want shell metacharacters in a
> command, you have to escape them (either by preceding them with a
> backslash or by quoting them).

bash does:

    ~$ echo ccc*
    ccc*

Things like csh and tcsh just don't run the command, though, as
you said.

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