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From: tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
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Date: 14 Jan 91 00:06:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: jlg@lanl.gov's message of 13 Jan 91 22:05:23 GMT

In article <11305@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

> By this logic, ls doesn't fit the paradigm.  I can (on any UNIX)
> do 'ls x*y' and get all the files whos names begin with x and end
> with y.  By the paradigm you just stated, I _should_ have to do
> 'ls | grep x*y'.  The fact is, _even_ the UNIX implementors realized
> that ls should have a built-in filter on file names.

And you've been using UNIX for ten years?  The shell does wildcard
substitution, not ls.  You could just as easily type 'echo x*y'.

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