Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  -> OK, OK!
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.203207.20436@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan13.113349.21937@ims.alaska.edu> <11305@lanl.gov> <1991Jan14.013815.11419@ims.alaska.edu> <11314@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 1991 20:32:07 GMT

In article <11314@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>Yes, both of the shells that are bundled with versions of UNIX _do_
>automatically trash (that is, 'process') the command line arguments to
>expand wildcards.  Explains why I don't use the bundled command shells
>much.  This is a choice that _should_ be left to the discretion of the
>utility writer.

Wrong.  Then -- as seen repeatedly in other operating systems -- every
command does it differently, and a lot of them don't do it at all.
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