Re: Shell hate (was Re: unzip hate)

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From: Peter da Silva
Subject: Re: Shell hate (was Re: unzip hate)
Date: 05:15 on 21 Feb 2007
On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Andrew Black wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
>> "No, that one's a port of a VMS program, and it only does VMS style 
>> wildcards."

> VMS Perl tries to be helpful and do the shell expansion that you might 
> expect. Usually this is helpful.

Oh. God. Thank you. You've reminded me of yet another level of 
hatefulness in systems where applications do wildcarding. Conflicts 
between application wildcard syntaxes.

Damn, I'd almost recycled those neurons. 

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