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wordexp.h(0P)             POSIX Programmer's Manual            wordexp.h(0P)

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       wordexp.h — word-expansion types

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       #include <wordexp.h>

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       The <wordexp.h> header shall define the structures and symbolic
       constants used by the wordexp() and wordfree() functions.
       The <wordexp.h> header shall define the wordexp_t structure type,
       which shall include at least the following members:
           size_t   we_wordc  Count of words matched by words.
           char   **we_wordv  Pointer to list of expanded words.
           size_t   we_offs   Slots to reserve at the beginning of we_wordv.
       The <wordexp.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants
       for use as flags for the wordexp() function:
       WRDE_APPEND   Append words to those previously generated.
       WRDE_DOOFFS   Number of null pointers to prepend to we_wordv.
       WRDE_NOCMD    Fail if command substitution is requested.
       WRDE_REUSE    The pwordexp argument was passed to a previous
                     successful call to wordexp(), and has not been passed
                     to wordfree().  The result is the same as if the
                     application had called wordfree() and then called
                     wordexp() without WRDE_REUSE.
       WRDE_SHOWERR  Do not redirect stderr to /dev/null.
       WRDE_UNDEF    Report error on an attempt to expand an undefined shell
                     variable.
       The <wordexp.h> header shall define the following symbolic constants
       as error return values:
       WRDE_BADCHAR  One of the unquoted characters—<newline>, '|', '&',
                     ';', '<', '>', '(', ')', '{', '}'—appears in words in
                     an inappropriate context.
       WRDE_BADVAL   Reference to undefined shell variable when WRDE_UNDEF
                     is set in flags.
       WRDE_CMDSUB   Command substitution requested when WRDE_NOCMD was set
                     in flags.
       WRDE_NOSPACE  Attempt to allocate memory failed.
       WRDE_SYNTAX   Shell syntax error, such as unbalanced parentheses or
                     unterminated string.
       The <wordexp.h> header shall define the size_t type as described in
       <stddef.h>.
       The following shall be declared as functions and may also be defined
       as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.
           int  wordexp(const char *restrict, wordexp_t *restrict, int);
           void wordfree(wordexp_t *);
       The following sections are informative.

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       None.

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       None.

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       None.

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       stddef.h(0p)
       The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 2.6, Word
       Expansions

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       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
       the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
       Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are
       most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the
       source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .
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