Wildcard handling from Terminal

[Lv0f92yv]

I am writing a small utility to resursively search all files in all subdirectories for a substring, and replace it with another.

I would like to handle wildcarding myself in my application, but when I run my program:

./a.out prefix* search replace

it seems that the terminal does the wildcarding for me, passing the args:

a.out prefix_01 search replace

where prefix_01 is one of the files I want to process.

Is there a way for the application to tell the terminal to not process wildcards? I suspect this might be something I specify when I run the command...?

Thanks

[kooth]

The shell is expanding the asterisk. Try escaping it with a backslash or put it in double-quotes.

[Lv0f92yv]

That does seem to fix the immidiate problem.... (backslash escaping the asterix), but it looks like I'll have to come up with another convention for dealing with wildcards.... Thanks.

[kooth]

Well, dealing with wildcards can be a fun exercise. Try looking a regex.

[sohguanh]

Well, dealing with wildcards can be a fun exercise. Try looking a regex.

Totally agree. It is not as trivial as I thought, in fact that was what I experience a few years ago.