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From: gerry@pencilbox.uucp (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What should be in future SKsh versions?
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Date: 8 Dec 89 15:51:06 GMT
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Since I only have ASH (haven't been able to find SKsh yet, where is
it?) I found two things (so far) I would like to see SKsh do. It might
already do it, but like I said, I haven't seen the latest yet.


1)  In sh/ksh I can do this:

	FILES=(one.txt two.txt three.txt)
	for i in $FILES

    
    And i will be each one of the files defined in the first line.  I
tried it, and it didn't work with my version of ASH.  This of course,
also should work with wildcards:

	FILES=(dh0:man/*)


2)  This is something that I use in tcsh that I would like to see in
SKsh since it already does filename completetion.  I can best describe
it by example.  My directory has:

	amiga.txt.1	amy.list	fred.txt

I am at the prompt and I type:

PROMPT> am<TAB>

The shell should beep indicating I have multiple choices. In addition
if I hit <CTRL-D> it should list my possible choices as:

	amiga.txt.1 	amy.list


Forgive my rambling, but this is my wishlist.

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