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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NAME
CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils - convenience functions for CPANPLUS
SYNOPSIS
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