From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-06-10T11:54:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby wildcard command line argument auto expansion

OK, then it look like your 'ruby' really is doing some form of  
filename expansion for command-line arguments.  However, not using  
Windows myself, there's no way that I could help you more than this.   
I do find it interesting though.

-Rob

On Jun 9, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Michael Jia wrote:

> Rob, the result is:
>
> C:\working>ruby -e "puts ARGV.join(' - ')"  *.txt
> config.txt - tips.txt
>
> C:\working>ruby -e "puts ARGV.join(' - ')" "*.txt"
> config.txt - tips.txt
>
> Thanks
> Michael
>
> Rob Biedenharn wrote:
>> In that case, you should run these two commands:
>>
>> c:\working> ruby -e "puts ARGV.join(' - ')"  *.txt
>>
>> c:\working> ruby -e "puts ARGV.join(' - ')" "*.txt"
>>
>> and they should produce the same output
>> (i.e., "config.txt - tips.txt" or "tips.txt - config.txt")
>> if the work is being done by the interpreter.
>>
>> If one of them produces simply "*.txt" (probably the second), then
>> something different is going on.
>>
>> -Rob

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