Spawn/Exec with asterisk in argument

[Michael Hoffman]

jeremyfee at gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Michael.

No problem.

> I used ls as a simple example, but I'm
> using this with scp to transfer files and need shell expansion.  It
> makes sense since the shell isn't spawning the process, but it's been
> a while since I've worked with ipc.

I usually don't think of starting new processes as being IPC. I've only 
ever seen it used to refer to communicating between processes after they 
have started.
-- 
Michael Hoffman