File template as command line param?

[Bazsl]

If I pass *.rb as a command line parameter to a Ruby script ARGV
contains the names of the files matching the template, not *.rb. Is
there a way to pass a file template as a command line parameter and have
it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

 

[Brian Adkins]

If I pass *.rb as a command line parameter to a Ruby script ARGV
contains the names of the files matching the template, not *.rb. Is
there a way to pass a file template as a command line parameter and have
it passed literally instead of being interpreted and expanded?

brian@imagine:~/temp$ cat > temp.rb
require 'pp'
pp ARGV
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb *.rb
["back.rb", "junk.rb", "qsort.rb", "temp.rb"]
brian@imagine:~/temp$ ruby temp.rb "*.rb"
["*.rb"]