Access to raw command line?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-04-26, Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:

>> One possible way to work around this is to get the raw command line
>> and do the shell expansions ourselves from within Python. Ignoring the
>> question of whether it is worth the trouble, does anybody know if it
>> is possible to obtain the raw (unexpanded) command line?
>
> If you're on VMS (well, you didn't say), you're in luck.
>
> The UNIX shell has already expanded the file globbing by the
> time your program starts up, but VMS leaves it to the application,
> with the help of a handy RMS$ function or two so it gets done in
> a consistent way.  This allows the command line interface to
> interact with the user in a little more transparent way, since
> the input seen by the program is congruent with what the user
> typed in.  E.g., "rename *.jpeg *.jpg" is trivial on VMS,
> impossible on UNIX.

Typing  rename '*.jpeg' '*.jpg' is impossible?

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