On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:25:02PM -0700, Ben Tilly wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I used '@' as my wildcard and then do a s/@/*/g at some point before using
> > it. It feels a bit klugey though. Is there a better way to do it?
> 
> That is very kludgey.  I would suggest just making people put single
> quotes around the wildcard.  That will be less surprising for
> experienced people.

And it also has the advantage of allowing and dealing with other globbing
constructs, such as ? or {,}.

Ronald

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