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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.1‐2017, Section 2.6, Word
       Expansions

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       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
       form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
       Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
       (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  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.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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