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From: mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: 21 Mar 91 19:28:29 GMT
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In-Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com's message of 20 Mar 91 16:36:06 GMT

In article <QN4AH6A@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
   > Um - I think we disagree about what "sucks" is.

   Yes, I mean "overloading globbing and text manipulation on a single tool".

Yet another reason the shell shouldn't glob. After all, manipulating
text is a shells primary function.

	<mike
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