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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  -> OK, OK!
Message-ID: <11390@lanl.gov>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:34:57 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.170115.17178@Think.COM>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <1991Jan14.170115.17178@Think.COM>, by barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin):
> [...]
> In the "one tool = one job" approach, I think the shell should handle the
> job of parsing command lines.  Since part of this philosophy is that the
> tool should do this one job *well*, I don't think the shell should expand
> wildcards.  It doesn't know which arguments are filenames, so it shouldn't
> blindly expand wildcards in all of them.


I usually don't post to these wild flame-fest discussions (even those
I start!) except on weekends.  But the above is the first intelligent
comment about wildcard 'globbing' that has been posted.  I just wanted
to say "Bravo!"

J. Giles