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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <18920@lanl.gov>
Date: 23 Mar 91 21:10:10 GMT
References: <TB6AKE6@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <TB6AKE6@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter
da Silva) writes:
|> [...]
|> + echo 'I''m planning on doing globbing like so: [*.c]'
|> I'm planning on doing globbing like so: split.c getline.c bsh.c domagic.c

Shouldn't that be:

+ echo 'I''m planning on doing globbing like so: '[*.c]
I'm planning on doing globbing like so: split.c getline.c bsh.c domagic.c

The globbing syntax _within_ the apostrophes should be passed
through unchanged - that's what the apostrophes mean (at least,
that's what they intuitively mean to the user).

|> [...]
|> And, of course, any interest?

Go for it.  It's better than what currently available UNIX shells
do now.

J. Giles