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Re: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?
- To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>, <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?
- From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 09:52:17 -0800
File name expansion (globbing) under MSDOS is handled inside each
individual program. As such a '.*' inside a sed expressions should not
be visible to the globbing routines.
Can you send an example where '.*' is getting expanded when you don't
want it to?
Mac :})
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Ron <rdparker@butlermfg.org>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Friday, October 17, 1997 19:09
Subject: Can globbing be disabled from MS-DOS?
>I need to call sed from the MS-DOS command line and be able to pass
>the regular expression ".*" without having it globbed. Is there a way
>to do this?
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