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From: mrush@csuchico.edu (Matt Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Wildcards
Keywords: # ? ( | )
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.012650.14664@csuchico.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 01:26:50 GMT
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In article <102618@linus.UUCP> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
>In article peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>...good ideas about wildcards omitted...
>>
>>Scripts would probably run with quotewild on by default, and the more powerful
>>amiga-style wildcards, and interactive shells would turn quotewild off and use
>>the terser unix-style wildcards.
>
>|I am surprised at the use of the phrase "more powerful amiga-style wildcards".
>More powerful than what?  Everything you can do with # and ? you can doo
>with * and ?, not jsut on unix, but also on VMS and (to some extent) on DOS.
	True, * and ? are about equivalent to # and ?.  HOWEVER, there are OTHER
wildcard symbols in AmigaDOS.  Many people, I find, have never used the |  or
parentheses.
	If you have the AmigaDOS reference manual (Bantam Books) READ about the
wildcards and you'll see that MS-DOG sucks compared to AmigaDOS wildcards.

	Try  copy <filename>.(c|h) ram:  and you can save a lot of time when
duplicating source files...

>I never understood where the AmigaDos wildcard conventions came from.
	Neitherr have I :-)

>Duncan Thomson
>
>--
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	-- Matt