/bin/sh help needed

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:

> At some point hitherto, David Kramer hath spake thusly:
> > Every combination of single quotes, double quotes, and escaping seems to 
> > either send it all as one argument, or send it all as separate arguments, 
> > but each argument is quoted.
> 
> You seem to have overlooked the most simple solution: don't quote it
> at all.  This should give you exactly what you want: a space separated
> list of args.  The main reason for quotes is to preserve space or
> change the default handling of metacharacters.  In this case, it
> appears you don't want to do either.  So don't use quotes.

With no quoting at all, the wildcards get expanded to files, and I need to 
pass the wildcards to the program, not the matching files.

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