command line argument expansion

[steve]

I'm in a Windows7 'term' with gcc version 4.5.0. Is there any way I
can prevent command line arguments that contain a wildcard from being
expanded, other than enclosing them in single quotes? Example: I want
to pass the string "*.xyz" to my program by simply doing
c:\a.exe *.xyz

But what is happening is that the 'term' sees

c:\a.exe blah.xyz somefile.xyz corn.xyz cobb.xyz

etc.

The only (unsatisfactory) solution I've found so far is to enclose the
argument in single quotes

c:\a.exe '*.xyz'

and then have my program remove the quotes.

Any help appreciated.

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