File template as command line param?

Ruby
1

If I pass *.rb as a command line parameter to a Ruby script ARGV
contains the names of the files matching the template, not *.rb. Is
there a way to pass a file template as a command line parameter and have
it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

2

it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

That has nothing to do with Ruby, but with shell expansion. Single
quotes
prevent shell expansion in all shells, as far as I know:

$ ruby -e ‘puts ARGV’ .rb
test.rb
$ ruby -e ‘puts ARGV’ '.rb’
*.rb

HTH,

Felix

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On Oct 9, 1:59 pm, Bazsl [email protected] wrote:

If I pass *.rb as a command line parameter to a Ruby script ARGV
contains the names of the files matching the template, not *.rb. Is
there a way to pass a file template as a command line parameter and have
it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

brian@imagine:~/temp$ cat > temp.rb
require ‘pp’
pp ARGV
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb .rb
[“back.rb”, “junk.rb”, “qsort.rb”, “temp.rb”]
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb ".rb"
[“*.rb”]