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From: harold@fmrco (Harold Naparst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Expanding wildcard options to main()
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.194817.20469@fmrco>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:48:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: fmrco.1991Apr1.194817.20469
Sender: harold@fmrco (Harold Naparst)
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How do you pass wildcard options to a program and get the
program to expand them like ls does.  Example: suppose I 
have two files called foo1 and foo2, and I want to run
myprog on them.  How would I write myprog so that I could
just do this:
   % myprog foo*

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