martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) (06/09/90)
In article <1990Jun8.162903.7297@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes: [original question and correct answer deleted] > Simple: It's shell's job to expand * and other character (called >globbing). On csh you can turn off this feature by "set noglob" and >characters such as '*' are treated leterally (this is necessary when using >tset, et al). In SysV shell file name expansion may also switched of with `set -f'. Switching it on again is done with `set +f'. -- Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83
jhpb@granjon.UUCP (Joseph H. Buehler) (06/12/90)
Now if you could only declare which programs/scripts need globbing and which don't... -- Joe Buehler
mikey@ontek.com (Michael "Krill-Man" Lee) (06/14/90)
In comp.lang.c, jhpb@granjon.att.com (59452-JH Buehler(BLU123)) writes: | Now if you could only declare which programs/scripts need globbing and | which don't... Done. PRIMOS rev 19.something. The linker had options for telling the shell what kind of expansion was allowed on program arguments. -- krill-man | krill@ontek.com