[Vm-dev] Issue 103 in cog: Mac VM Strange Bash Argument Expansion

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Status: Accepted
Owner: camillob... at gmail.com
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 103 by camillob... at gmail.com: Mac VM Strange Bash Argument  
Expansion
http://code.google.com/p/cog/issues/detail?id=103

Cog handles command line arguments inconsistently under mac:

cogVM Foo.image *
=> OK, normal expansion happening, `Smalltalk arguments` contains the names  
of all the files in the directory

cogVM Foo.image "*"
=> FAIL! `Smalltalk arguments` contains the very same files again

cogVM Foo.image \*
=> FAIL! `Smalltalk arguments` contains the very same files again

cogVM Foo.image "\*"
=> `Smalltalk arguments` contains a single string '\*'

I expected the same arguments as when doing an echo
echo *   => prints all files
echo "*" => prints *
echo \* => prints *

so somewhere there must happen a strange additional expansion (at least in  
the Mac VM)