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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to send a string to function containing wild card? Post 302411172 by paragkalra on Wednesday 7th of April 2010 10:18:46 PM
Old 04-07-2010
How to send a string to function containing wild card?
Hey All,

I am trying to send a string as an input parameter to a function which contains a wild card character - *

Quote:
my_function '/path/to/my/dir/file*.out'
However the function is taking it as:
Quote:
my_function '/path/to/my/dir/file1.out /path/to/my/dir/file2.out '/path/to/my/dir/file3.out '
PS: The directory - '/path/to/my/dir/' has 3 files:
file1.out,
file2.out,
file3.out

However I want to disable this wild card behaviour i.e to say I want to literally send '/path/to/my/dir/file*.out' as a string without any wild card expansion.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

jocamlmklib

JOCAMLMKLIB(1)						      General Commands Manual						    JOCAMLMKLIB(1)

NAME

       jocamlmklib - generate libraries with mixed C / Caml code.

SYNOPSIS

       ocalmklib [options] files

DESCRIPTION

       The  jocamlmklib  command facilitates the construction of libraries containing both Caml code and C code, and usable both in static linking
       and dynamic linking modes.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -cclib lib
	      C library passed to jocamlc -a or jocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -ccopt opt
	      C option passed to jocamlc(1) -a or jocamlopt(1) -a only.

       -custom
	      Disable dynamic loading.

       -dllpath dir
	      Add dir to the run-time search path for DLLs.

       -I dir Add dir to the path searched for Caml object files.

       -failsafe
	      Fall back to static linking if DLL construction failed.

       -ldopt opt
	      C option passed to the shared linker only.

       -linkall
	      Build Caml archive with link-all behavior.

       -llib  Specify a dependent C library.

       -Ldir  Add dir to the path searched for C libraries.

       -jocamlc cmd
	      Use cmd in place of jocamlc(1).

       -jocamlopt cmd
	      Use cmd in place of jocamlopt(1).

       -o name
	      Generated Caml library is named name.cma or name.cmxa.

       -oc name
	      Generated C library is named dllname.so or libname.a.

       -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Rdir  Same as -rpath.

       -verbose
	      Print commands before executing them.

       -Wl, -rpath dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -rpath -Wl dir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Wl, -Rdir
	      Same as -dllpath dir.

       -Fdir  Specify a framework directory (MacOSX).

       -framework name
	      Use framework name (MacOSX).

SEE ALSO

       jocamlc(1), jocamlopt(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  August 19, 2004						    JOCAMLMKLIB(1)
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