Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dgbt!don
From: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.152347.28521@dgbt.doc.ca>
Sender: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 15:23:47 GMT



I'll probably burn in hell for this one, but why not ...

1 remove globbing from the shell.
2 put in a library.
3 current shell programs would need to be updated (first thing they do
  is call glob(argc, argv), returning argc and argv updated (globbed)
4 New programs that want to glob can call glob.
5 New the rename command (rename *.pas *.p) could ...

	look at argc and argv, and copy them somewhere.
	modify argv and argc to just glob for files with .pas
	and then build a cmd line and exec mv.


Fire away...