[Mono-list] Command Line Parsing

[Abe Gillespie]

Ok, this is probably the problem then.

Thanks.
-Abe

On 11/8/05, Andrew Vick <avick at remote-print.com> wrote:
> Abe Gillespie wrote:
> > Any thoughts on the bug (maybe?) I encountered.  I'll file it if
> > someone confirms it.
> >
> >>>2.  I think I ran into a bug playing around with the command line.
> >>>When I send an asterisk "*" as one of the arguments I get some weird
> >>>stuff.  On Windows it seems to work ok.  Try the fsollowing with an
> >>>asterisk as one of the args:
> >>>
> >>>using System;
> >>>class Program
> >>>{
> >>>   static void Main(string[] args)
> >>>   {
> >>>       foreach (string s in args)
> >>>           Console.WriteLine(s);
> >>>   }
> >>>}
>
> If you are seeing this bug under unix-like systems, be aware that command shells expand wildcards before passing the arguments to the application.  You can verify this by running the command:
>
> echo *
>
> That should give the same results as your program.  If you want to pass a literal *, you'll need to quote or escape it on the command line:
>
> echo \*
>
> -Andrew V.
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