Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@marc.watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: shell architecture (to glob or not to glob) Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 21:37:25 GMT References: <378@bria> <434@bria> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 17 In article <434@bria> >Path: arnor!aides.watson.ibm.com!scifi!bywater!uunet!bria!mike ... >Actually, the presumption is that arguments are files. If you would >prefer to not use globbing, then set noglob or use quotes. If there was >no way to disable the shell's argument globbing, then yes, I'd agree >with you.... The design of many unix commands assumes globbing, and thus they are functionally deficient when it is turned off. The shell ability for turning of globbing is in fact for writing shell scripts which must deal with file names and not prematurely glob them. I don't think anyone would be happy using command mode without it. -- Marc Auslander