From: Pierre Baillet <oct@...>
Date: 2002-11-29T08:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: too clever?

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002, Shannon Fang wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Sometime, I think ruby is too clever. It automatically expand cmdline.
> 
> For example:
> 
> myprog *.txt good
> 
> in a language like c or pascal, argv[0]="*.txt" argv[1]="good", but in
> ruby, all txt file in the directory is put into the command line. This
> may be good, but a drawback is it is not convenient to get the second
> parameter, because ARGV.length is variable... What do you think?

I think that you are playing too much with your shell : 

> oct@Colibri ~ % ruby -e "p ARGV" *.doc
> zsh: no match

Whereas:

> oct@Colibri ~ % ruby -e "p ARGV" "*.doc"
> ["*.doc"]

My shell does the "*.doc" expansion if I forget to protect the *.
between quotes. Yours has probably the same feature activated...

Try and 'ruby myprog "*.txt" good' ...


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Pierre Baillet
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