Bug #12634: Ruby converts '*' on command line to a file name

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26 revision 54768) [x64-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[krwq (Krzysztof Wicher)]

Repro:

• ruby script.rb *
• script.rb:
  puts ARGV[0]

output:

expected output:
*

OS: Windows 10

This is annoying when passing glob as an arg. Also happens when passing anything starting with *

[krwq (Krzysztof Wicher)]

output is random file name (tags got removed)

[avit (Andrew Vit)]

This is handled by your shell before passing to ruby. Compare:

ruby -e 'puts ARGV.inspect' *
["file1", "file2"]

ruby -e 'puts ARGV.inspect' '*'
["*"]

[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

Andrew, I guess this is the key part:

OS: Windows 10

So yes, ruby handles glob in pace of Unix shells on this platform. As far as I remember this is by design.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Closed to Rejected

Anyway, although on Windows, use '*' to prevent globbing.