Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question

Adam Beneschan <adam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sep 23, 5:31 pm, Björn Persson <bj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You might argue that programs that have their own pattern matching features
should use a different set of special characters to distinguish the patterns
from those that the shell expands, but that's a bad idea in my opinion.
Having multiple different syntaxes makes it hard to remember when to use
which syntax.

Multiple syntaxes is a bad idea, but I've always wanted a way to add a
flag to certain executables to tell the shell "don't expand wildcards
when running this executable".

That flag exists, but it's a shell feature, of course, since you are
telling the shell to not do something. It's called "quotes".

Then you could actually write a command of the sort that exists on
other OS's:

rename *.ada *.adb

rename "*.ada *.adb"

or

rename "*.ada" "*.adb"

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