From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T12:25:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby wildcard command line argument auto expansion

Hi,

At Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:39:30 +0900,
Michael Jia wrote in [ruby-talk:254917]:
> In my case, I want to use 'ARGV[0]' to match filenames in a different
> location. But ARGV[0] is not "*.txt" as my expected. It was changed by
> ruby. In fact, it is "config.txt" in this case.
> 
> One way to correct it is to always ask user to use single-quoted string:
> 
> C:\working>ruby -e "puts ARGV" '*.txt'
> *.txt

It's the only way.

-- 
Nobu Nakada