From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-01T09:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: `echo %!(*`

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:06:30 +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
> I am not sure that I understand what you mean by "bypassing the shell",
> but will this work for you:

UNIX shells do globbing, whereas DOS (and CMD) leave that for the program to 
do the globbing. Let's say you have Sound1.ogg and Sound2.ogg in a 
directory. When a DOS program gets a command like:

vorbiscomment *.ogg

ARGV[0] is "*.ogg". It's up to vorbiscomment to convert *.ogg into all of 
the files in the directory that match *.ogg. However, when a UNIX shell gets 
the same command, ARGV[0] is "Sound1.ogg"; ARGV[1] is "Sound2.ogg".

>> Apparently Kernel::` is a method, but I can't figure out how to call it
>> with my own arguments.  Is there a non-punctuation name for it?  This

Kernel::system(command [, args*]) should do what you're after. If you know 
you're on a Unix system, you can escape asterisks with a backslash (e.g., 
"\\\\*" in Ruby). That *should* work.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.08.31
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