From: Michael Jia <z_jia@...>
Date: 2007-06-10T02:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby wildcard command line argument auto expansion

Thanks you all for the reply.
I blog this thread in 
http://zhifengjia.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5D88F9EA36578152!218.entry
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Gregor Schmidt wrote:
> Hallo Michael,
> 
> it's not Ruby, that expands your argument, but the shell. And
> therefore you got no other chance than escaping the argument there.
> 
> This can be done using quotes or a backslash in front of each special
> character
>> ruby -e "puts ARGV" \*.txt
> 
> Best,
> 
> Gregor


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