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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <MY8AJG9@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <TB6AKE6@xds13.ferranti.com> <18920@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:07:34 GMT

In article <18920@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) 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

No, those two have different meanings. The former passes a single argument
to echo:

I'm planning on doing globbing like so: split.c getline.c bsh.c domagic.c

The latter passes 4 arguments:

I'm planning on doing globbing like so: split.c
getline.c
bsh.c
domagic.c

The only thing quotes are for in this shell is for argument grouping.
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