Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!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: Globbing Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 19:43:36 GMT References: <1991Feb18.152347.28521@dgbt.doc.ca> <474@bria> <19217@cbmvax.commodore.com> <5573:Feb2307:19:4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <19336@cbmvax.commodore.com> <43994@cos.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 27 In article kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes: > I'm familiar with VMS and AmigaDOS; I run one and own the other. But I > can't think of any commands on either that use multiple separately globbed > arguments. Not: I'm not saying wildcard; I'm saying globbed. In the case > of RENAME, for example, the second wildcard argument is an _output_ > filespec, and as such is not globbed. Which did you have in mind? That's my point. You can't blame UNIX there... plenty of prior art and you're looking at a damned rare case. > "Slightly" different? _Existing_ shell globbing? Certainly, a > sufficiently sophisticated globbing syntax enxironment could do it. If > your solution is within the spirit of this discussion, I'm curious. My solution is don't use globbing for cases where you're doing something more sophisticated than globbing. > The default action you want is to glob. For a current shell that does this, > try "tcl". > I thought tcl was sort of a compiled-in command language processor -- but I > confess far more curiosity than knowledge. Please tell me more. Well, the default program you compile it in is an interactive shell. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"