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Re: [ecs] linux question Neil Cherry Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:46:00 -0500

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Mark Gilmore wrote:
> how can a C pgm obtain the "original" command which triggered it's 
> execution ?:
> i.e.: if i enter:
>         mypgm *.c
> main()'s arg[...] will be a list of each .c file.
> But what I need is the "*.c" (i.e. what was actually entered - not the 
> shell's interpretation).

Short answer, you can't.

Longer answer, instead enter at the command line the following:

mypgm \*.c

or

mypgm '*.c'

Once the shell has interpreted the data the command to be executed
can't see the original uninterpreted command line.

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