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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?
Date: 11 Sep 2024 02:54:32 GMT
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In article <vbqtcb$1r0i3$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>In article <lkbjchFebk9U1@mid.individual.net>,
>Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>>I have the case where my C program is handed a string which is basically
>>a command line.
>>
>>Is there a common open source C library for tokenizing and globbing
>>this into an argc/argv as a shell would do?  I've googled, but I get
>>too much C++ & other language stuff.
>>
>>Note that I'm not asking for getopt(), that comes afterwards, and
>>I'm not asking for any variable interpolation, but just that a string
>>like, say
>
>Have a look at wordexp(3).
>

Very interesting, thanks!

Something added since lasttime I paged through section 3...

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