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Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Message-ID: <355@bria>
Date: 14 Jan 91 12:16:41 GMT
References: <8148@hub.ucsb.edu> <11313@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <11313@lanl.gov> lanl.gov!jlg (Jim Giles) writes:
>From article <8148@hub.ucsb.edu>, by tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein):
>> [...]
>> 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'.
>
>Yes, you could type 'echo x*y' - which would write the string 'x*y'
>on your terminal.  The shell does no wildcard substitution on any
>argument _automatically_.  The tool has to ask for the functionality.

<< FLAME ON! >>

The "tool has to ask for the functionality" of globbing?  How does it do
this, precisely?  Send email to shell, asking it nicely?  C'mon!  Globbing
is a builtin function of the shell; wildcards are resolved BEFORE the
shell even forks and executes the command.  So, tell us all, who are appraently
so ignorant (nay, but mere intellectual pygmies on the broad shoulders of
your intellect), how does the program ask for globbing after it has already
been done, and the arguments are sitting in it's stack?

Please, enlighten us all.

<< FLAME OFF >>

And don't you just hate the word "paradigm" after it's been used twenty or
thirty times?  How about "example" for a change.  I have a Webster's
dictionary too, ya know.
-- 
Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation
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