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Top Forums Programming Problem on acquiring arguments with asterisk '*' (C language) Post 302549939 by Corona688 on Wednesday 24th of August 2011 09:19:33 AM
Old 08-24-2011
If you're feeding *something* into your C program as a raw argument without any shell expansion, that's not going to work, it's the shell's job to expand asterisks for you. (Though if you put them in the system() command, they will expand there because system() runs the commands you give it in a shell.) If you're doing that in the shell, I don't know why it's not expanding, and certainly can't tell without seeing your programs (shell and C).

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ATF-SH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ATF-SH(1)

NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
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