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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <X.U9MZ7@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 3 Mar 91 15:23:56 GMT
References: <19217@cbmvax.commodore.com> <5573:Feb2307:19:4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19336@cbmvax.commodore.com> <17704:Feb2719:04:3791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19375@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <19375@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
> 	This imposes a very specific syntax on commands.  What do you do
> in a keyword-oriented system?  Also, allowing options anywhere is far
> more regular and less confusing to users.

A straight keyword oriented system is a loss anyway, because the chances of
file names colliding with options increases greatly. It's like languages with
no reserved words. To make it work you need to mark the keywords somehow.

> 	Tell me how I invoke multiple programs at once with the same
> argument list.

for i in prog1 prog2 ...; do $i arg list; done
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