How do I pass in the asterisk character '*' in bash as arguments to my C program?

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Published on 2010-05-03T02:05:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 2:08 UTC
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Let's say I have a C program, and I run it from bash:

$ ./a.out 123 *

The program would output all the command line arguments, but it will show these instead:

Argument 1: 123 Argument 2: a.out

What can I do in my program to fix this?

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