In our previous episode, Luca Olivetti said: > > Obviously this is a common scenario on Linux, so how to treat it? > > You don't, accept the fact and don't try to oppose resistance ;-) > > > > > I would prefer to expand the wildcards by myself, but it seems I have > > no access to what the user actually typed on the commandline? > > The only way is to single quote parameters: > > ./scopy '*' y '*.bak' > > (see, e.g., the manual page for find).
Or change the syntax in a way that the last command is not a wildcard. mv/cp work that way, they assume the last argument is a destination, and all others are generated by wildcards. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
