title: Stop shell wildcard character expansion?
body: <p>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?</p>
  
  <p>For instance, one might want a shell command like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>foo *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to simply return the numeric ASCII value of that character.</p>