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From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Shells
Summary: with true wildcard expansion
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Date: 8 Dec 90 08:25:53 GMT
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Are there any shells for the amiga (either commercial or freely redist.)
that actually do the wildcard expansion, rather than the program
having to do it?  In other words, if I have a directory containing:
foo.1 foo.2 foo.txt

and I have written a SAS/C program which simply scans argc and argv
and prints out all its command line arguments (call it arg, say) and
I do:
> arg foo.? *.txt 
in that shell, then
foo.1 foo.2 foo.txt

will be the output of my program.

Are there any such beasties?


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