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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Symlinks and ..
Message-ID: <7091@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:02:05 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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While we're adding new syntax to the shell...

Personally I think "..." should be a wildcard denoting a recursive search:

	echo .../*.c

This should be equivalent to:

	echo `find . -name '*.c' -print`

Prior art: VMS does it this way.
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