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Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > How many of the people who think shell wildcard expansion is hateful > have spent much time using other people's programs on any OS where > the command line is the normal user interface and where wildcard > expansion is up to the application writers? > > God it's hateful. > > "Oh yeh, that program only does wildcards on the first argument and > on the "file=3D" parameter if you didn't specify a device name." > > "Oh, sorry, yeh, it doesn't let you wildcard the type. What? It does > WHAT? Geeze, why would anyone expect that to work?" > > "No, that one's a port of a VMS program, and it only does VMS style > wildcards." > > "Oh, yeh, you need to quote the filename to get normal wildcards." > > "No, don't quote that, it'll try and treat the quotes as part of the > file name." > > "Single quotes only." > > "Don't quote it, replace the spaces with underscores." > > "Wildcards on the second file name only work if the first file name > has wildcards in it." > > "Oh, yeh, you need to use UNIX wildcards on all of his programs." > > "That's not a wildcard, star means 'any host'." > > "The wildcards are '#' and '%', something to do with the database." > > "Question mark means the file type is optional." > > "No, you have to leave the quote off at the end of the line or it > won't match anything. Yes, I know they're unbalanced. If you ask me, > so was he." > > "Two stars in a row means a literal star." More! More! Go on, more pain! Harder! Ahem Martin.There's stuff above here
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