Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Wildcard types Message-ID: <7064@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Nov 90 03:23:02 GMT References: <15517@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2439@trlluna.trl.oz> <15620@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Nov16.171451.5668@gtisqr.uucp> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 20 [someone claims that wildcard expansion is the shell's job] In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX! ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX! ALL THE WORLD > IS NOT UNIX! ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX! ALL THE WORLD IS NOT UNIX! That's nice. Here, swallow the nice pill. Feeling calmer? I get the feeling that some people have a knee-jerk reaction to anything UNIX does just because it's something UNIX does. One of these things is wildcards. Another is filename expansion in the shell. I've even had people (back before MS-DOS got them) claim hierarchical directories were a bad idea. How about linefeed-seperated files? STREAM-LF files are only known in UNIX and AmigaOS that I know of. Is that a bad idea, now? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .