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Old 10-25-2004, 10:39 PM   #1
qspares
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Angry How to turn off Fedora wildcat?


I just found an annoying feature of fedora: I compiled a C program, let's
call it myprogram. Then when I type command like:
$ myprogram aa.*
the shell will convert the aa.* to all files that match the wildcat, if I have
aa.a, aa.b aa.c in my current directory, the command will be converted to:
$ myprogram aa.a aa.b aa.c

I hate it, Anybody knows how to turn it off? Thanks!
 
Old 10-26-2004, 12:57 AM   #2
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I'm not sure how to disable wildcards globally, but one thing you could do is use the escape character \ before your wildcard. ? * and other symbols are known as "special characters" (check the lq wiki). To refer to a file that contains any special character, (even executables) you need to use an escape character that tells bash, "Hey, this filename literally contains [whatever]".

So you would run an executable called aa.* in your current directory with:

Code:
./aa.\*
--Shade

Edit to add: This probably would have fit better in linux-general, instead of linux-software as it has to do with syntax.

Last edited by Shade; 10-26-2004 at 12:59 AM.
 
Old 10-26-2004, 03:55 PM   #3
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I guess that should work, but it's a little bit awkward? Is there a way to just turn it off easily?
 
  


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