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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <9840:Feb1820:43:0991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:43:09 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.152347.28521@dgbt.doc.ca> don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan) writes:
> 1 remove globbing from the shell.
> 2 put in a library.
  [ etc. ]

Pointless and destructive. You can do this much more easily by modifying
your shell, and it helps neither efficiency nor security to have every
program do its own globbing.

---Dan