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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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Subject: Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:56:27 -0000 (UTC)
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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).

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