From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T08:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Automatic globbing of ARGV

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:27:55 -0700, Christian Madsen wrote:

> I found a funny feature of Ruby tonight: if possible, commandline
> arguments are automatically globbed. For instance in a directory with
> one file foo.bar:
> 
> test.rb *.bar
> => ARGV = ['foo.bar']
> 
> test.rb *.html
> => ARGV = ['*.html']

If a file matching the glob exists, then your shell globs it.
If a file matching the glob doesn't exist, then
* csh spits out an error message, always
* bash just passes the glob unchanged (as "*.html" here)


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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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