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From: a563@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Filename expansion missing from MSDOS gawk, version 2.11
Message-ID: <2289@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 02:46:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> steve@cs.su.oz writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1074@cluster.cs.su.oz>
> Posted: 29 Jun 90 15:24:59 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
> Person: Stephen Russell
> 
> In article <321@happym.wa.com> irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe) writes:
> > [ lack of globbing in gawk under MSDOS ... ]
> >A better solution than a mere upgrade to handle stars might be getting a
> >reasonable shell that will run under MSDOS.  They exist; MKS has made a fine
> >one and I'm sure there are others.
> 
> While the MKS shell is very neat, and I'm sure the others are too, they
> won't solve the problem completely. The 128 byte MSDOS command line
> puts a nasty limit on the length of the expanded line. The MKS utilities
> use a non-standard mechanism to get at the shell's expanded command
> line, but this is inherently nonportable.
> 
> Nope, under MSDOS you have to do the work yourself. Anyway feel like
> donating a glob() function to the public domain?

Sure, here's one that will do all the files ending in the extension .C:

  for %f in (*.c) do gawk %f

There, simple wild card expansion.  If you want, you can stick in in a batch
file, like this:

--- CUT HERE -- FILE GLOB.BAT --
for %%f in (%2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9) do %1 %%f
--- CUT HERE -- FILE GLOB.BAT --

And you can just go:  GLOB gawk *.c *.h *.cpp
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