Take a look at your shell manpage. I just took a quick look at the bash manpage, and it allows you to turn off pathname expansion with a -f switch.
So this worked for me: $ bash -f $ script.pl file* names* $ exit Or as a one liner... $ bash -fc 'script.pl file* names*' Rob -----Original Message----- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:08 PM To: Hanson, Robert; Nikola Janceski; Beginners (E-mail) Subject: RE: command line arguments I was hoping for some way to capture it in perl instead with out having to change the command line arguments. -----Original Message----- From: Hanson, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:05 PM To: 'Nikola Janceski'; Beginners (E-mail) Subject: RE: command line arguments You should be able to just escape the *. Single quoting them should also work. script.pl file\* names\* script.pl 'file*' 'names*' Rob -----Original Message----- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:03 PM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: command line arguments Is there a way to get the command line arguments before they are expanded by the shell? script.pl file* names* I want to get the file* and not the expanded list of file1 file2 file3 file4 etc. I know I can put it in quotes but is there any other way around it? Delivery Queue <http://www/reldist-bin/build/assign/listassign.cgi?reverse=on> Nikola Janceski Summit Systems, Inc. 212-896-3400 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
