Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: shell architecture (to glob or not to glob) Message-ID: <2IY9W0H@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 7 Mar 91 16:36:22 GMT References: <1991Jan14.013815.11419@ims.alaska.edu> <11314@lanl.gov> <0IS9YFC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Mar5.171819.10543@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <19553@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <19553@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > The problem is (as I stated before, and was misunderstood) that > globbing (at least all I've seen) do not force ./path if you don't > specify it. So, as I said, you must know what files are going to matched > by the glob before you do it. Or get into the habit of typing "./*". It's only one more character than "#?" anyway... Also considering "#?", shell globbing would have avoided all the complaints about AmigaDOS not using UNIX-type wildcards. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"