From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: /? command line args being altered by DJGPP
Date:	Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:16:21 -0800
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> In comes another Unixism: the shell filenaming globbing. ...
> 
> Only if no matching filenames are found, the pattern (including ? and
> *) will be passed to the subprogram, instead.

Note that no shells that I'm aware of (certainly not the most popular
ones) do this; if there is no match to the glob, either nothing will be
past (it will evaluate to null) or the shell will return an error and
not execute the command.  If you actually want shell metacharacters in a
command, you have to escape them (either by preceding them with a
backslash or by quoting them).

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