Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <17097@lanl.gov> <5H0ABE8@xds13.ferranti.com> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:01:36 GMT In article <20056@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >> All it takes are tools designed for handling multiple file arguments. > >... it requires tools that take multiple arguments. On AmigaDOS, because > >the tools are written to do the globbing themselves, they don't. > Ah, but under 2.0 most of them do, just as they accept wildcards now. OK, so after 5 (6?) years we can expect the standard tools will finally work right. Of course the short command line length limits are still there (right?), and all the third-party tools are still waiting... Nope, I stand by my assertion that you really can't expect to change the shell semantics on systems where things like wildcarding are handled by the applications. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"