Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> On Sep 23, 5:31�pm, Bj�rn Persson <bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
>
>> You might argue that programs that have their own pattern matching features
>> should use a different set of special characters to distinguish the patterns
>> from those that the shell expands, but that's a bad idea in my opinion.
>> Having multiple different syntaxes makes it hard to remember when to use
>> which syntax.
>
> Multiple syntaxes is a bad idea, but I've always wanted a way to add a
> flag to certain executables to tell the shell "don't expand wildcards
> when running this executable".  

That flag exists, but it's a shell feature, of course, since you are
telling the shell to not do something. It's called "quotes".

> Then you could actually write a command of the sort that exists on
> other OS's:
>
>    rename *.ada *.adb

rename "*.ada *.adb"

or 

rename "*.ada" "*.adb"

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