how to avoid entering wildcards in a word

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi everybody,
im writing a bash script, and receiving entry from a user, and i need to check if the word has any wildcards in.
do u have any ideas please .

thanks .

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If a user enters a wildcard it will be globbed (expanded) by the shell. You will not see a wildcard in the result you read in.

Unless you turn off globbing in your script.

set -o noglob
read filename
-- check for wilcards or do something with filename here

set +o noglob
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Do not post questions without trying to solve the problem yourself based on your understanding. Post what have you tried so far and where exactly are you stuck?