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Re: Quoting, backslashes, CLI and MI
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:57:53 -0500
> From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
>
> (Hm... should there be a flavor of "set args" that does shell-style
> expansion of the args list? That sure would be handy for cases where
> I want to debug a program that's being handed a wildcard, or some
> similar expanded argument, and I end up having to expand it manually
> when inside GDB...)
But we already have that flavor of "set args"; it's what "set args"
;-). When we start an inferior process, we do so by starting a shell,
which will expand the argument list for you.
Mark