Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!necisa!boyd
From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  -> OK, OK!
Message-ID: <1994@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 15 Jan 91 00:58:00 GMT
References: <1991Jan13.113349.21937@ims.alaska.edu> <11305@lanl.gov> <1991Jan14.013815.11419@ims.alaska.edu> <11314@lanl.gov>
Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia Pty. Ltd.
Lines: 18

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.

Well, what do you use then?  cat(1)?

How can you comment on stuff you've just admitted you don't use
and have further demonstrated a basic misunderstanding of?

Why would you _not_ want to use the standard command interpreters?
The [Bourne] shell is one of the benefits of using UNIX.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''