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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: 23 Mar 91 21:29:32 GMT
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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

Whoops!  Forgot to mention that this syntax (even if you adopt my
previous suggestion) still doesn't allow me to write a tool which
uses the _same_ wildcard syntax for other tools that the shell
uses for filenames.  At the very least, the characters around
the wildcard pattern (or some other distinguishing feature) would
have to be different.  If consistency in the user interface were
_really_ important to you, you wouldn't force this inconsistency
into your shell design.

J. Giles