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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: 14 Mar 91 02:02:35 GMT
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In article <10803@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>(Sigh, I had hoped my observation that `what works in one system is not
>necessarily appropriate/best for all' would end this, but...:)

	Sigh.  Followups to comp.os.misc (again).

>I am not going to disagree with your general idea, but you really should
>get the details right when you post something like this:

>Grep-style regular expressions are more powerful than shell metacharacters,
>at the expense of more complexity. 

	Of course, things get worse with shell globbing if you want globbing
as powerful as RE's in grep (classes, negation, repetition, etc).  With
shell globbing, you start having to escape or quote even more than now.

>Eschew backslash: quotes are your friends....

	But they're still confusing to users, you just may not have to type
as many of them.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)