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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <15210:Mar2716:23:3191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 16:23:31 GMT
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In article <KENW.91Mar25203803@skyler.arc.ab.ca> kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes:
>   Explicit globbing would take care of "*"; maybe the globber should escape
> "-", spaces, etc., automatically?  What would happen if this were passed
> through multiple handlers?

You want globbing to put all relative filenames into ./ format? Fine.

>   Ambiguity can be powerful, but sometimes it is dangerous.  Somethimes we
> need to be able to say "THAT is PRECISELY what I mean".  It seems to be
> rather difficult in most shells that support globbing.

Oh? Do you have an example of where you haven't been able to tell the
shell precisely what you mean because it supports globbing?

---Dan