Greetings,
OK I missed some crucial info. I am trying to write a program
that will be used under various shells and users of the program
do not know "escaping metacharacters". I actuall got two quick
responses, I will summarise later.
Thanks in advance and thanks for the reponses.
cheers
Mohan
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Mohan wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have a simple question, is there a way to get the
> original unmodified command line in a program w/o
> any shell expansion etc?
>
> I.e say if i have my own "mcp" program and if i type in:
>
> $ mcp *.c xyz
>
> if there a way to get
> argv[0]="mcp"
> argv[1]="*.c"
> argv[2]="xyz"
>
> instead of
> argv[0]="mcp"
> argv[1]="xx.c"
> argv[2]="xxx.c"
> ...
> argv[last]="xyz"
>
> I know this iis probably not possible, thought I would give it
> a shot.
>
> Thanks
> Mohan
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 10 1999 - 19:51:19 NZST