From: Paul Denize <paul.denize@...>
Date: 2009-06-16T09:15:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby wildcard command line argument auto expansion

Shin guey Wong wrote:
> I think you should use '*.txt' instead of "*.txt". Here the output from 
> my WinXP:

I think Ruby is wrong to change the OS standard.  On unix the standard 
is to expand as filenames (fine).  On windows the standard is NOT to 
expand wildcards.

I use wildcards for non filename lookups (i.e. to match users in an 
LDAP)

Example in Pthon
C:\> finduser.py pa*
user paul found

Same in Ruby
C:\> finduser.rb pa*
- and it goes looking for a user with a name matching some file in the 
current directory.

I accept that on unix it SHOULD require quotes or escaping but not on 
Windows.

On windows the ARGV should be "pa*" as typed.
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