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Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)Posted Dec 9, 2011 16:30 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by HelloWorld Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)
> The issue here is that an application should know whether an argument was generated by globbing or not, so that it can treat an argument such as -l as a positional parameter instead of an option if it was generated by a glob pattern.
There's a standard solution to this: instead of "ls *.c", write "ls ./*.c", which has the same effect, and yet has no chance of accidentally expanding to an option rather than the expected filename.
Or, for any program which has a standard getopt-style command-line parser, just use "--" before any glob patterns.
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