From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-10T07:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: File template as command line param?

On Oct 9, 1:59 pm, Bazsl <h...@dbginc.com> wrote:
> If I pass *.rb as a command line parameter to a Ruby script ARGV
> contains the names of the files matching the template, not *.rb. Is
> there a way to pass a file template as a command line parameter and have
> it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

brian@imagine:~/temp$ cat > temp.rb
require 'pp'
pp ARGV
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb *.rb
["back.rb", "junk.rb", "qsort.rb", "temp.rb"]
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb "*.rb"
["*.rb"]