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From: quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.033600.25454@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 03:36:00 GMT
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In article <11305@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>'ls | grep x*y'.  The fact is, _even_ the UNIX implementors realized
>that ls should have a built-in filter on file names.

Jim, once before you challenged someone to say that you don't know
anything about Unix.

Ok, you don't know anything about Unix, and the above misstatement proves
it.

ls(1) doesn't have any built in filters on file names.  The wildcards
are part of the shell, not the command or OS kernel.

-- Doug Quale
quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu