How to glob with Nelua during compilation

[stefanos82]

I have a folder full of Nelua files; what I tend to do is to execute the following command in terminal: for name in *.nelua; do nelua "$name"; done.

It's not that difficult, but I have tried the shortest command nelua *.nelua and expected it to work; to my surprise it didn't and I wondered why.

Can you enlighten me please?

[edubart]

This is not possible because arguments following the input file are reserved to be arguments to be passed to the running application, example:

require 'arg'
print(arg[1])

Then running:

$ nelua test.nelua hello.nelua
hello.nelua

And using *.nelua is effectively the same as expanding current directory files into many arguments.

[stefanos82]

Ah OK; then my standard way with for loop will be just fine.

Thank you for letting me know.