From: mchase@ix.netcom.com (Michael A. Chase) Subject: Re: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS? 3 Nov 1997 06:11:21 -0800 Message-ID: <01bce6ee$e4fc82d0$f5528989.cygnus.gnu-win32@prog017744070-3.boeing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Parker, Ron" , File name expansion (globbing) under MSDOS is handled inside each individual program. As such a '.*' inside a sed expressions should not be visible to the globbing routines. Can you send an example where '.*' is getting expanded when you don't want it to? Mac :}) -----Original Message----- From: Parker, Ron To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 19:09 Subject: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS? >I need to call sed from the MS-DOS command line and be able to pass >the regular expression ".*" without having it globbed. Is there a way >to do this? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".