Stop shell wildcard character expansion?

Question

Is there any way for a compiled command-line program to tell bash or csh that it does not want any wildcard characters in its parameters expanded?

For instance, one

Answer 1

The expansion is performed by the shell before your program is run. Your program has no clue as to whether expansion has occurred or not.

   set -o noglob

will switch off expansion in the invoking shell, but you'd have to do that before you invoke your program.

The alternative is to quote your arguments e.g.

foo "*"