Aucbvax.5135
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Thu Nov 12 03:45:16 1981
argv and raw command line
>From ihuxl!jej@Berkeley Thu Nov 12 00:19:12 1981
Re gwyn@UTEXAS-11's comment: it may run counter to the general Unix
philosophy, but quoting is a massive pain in all but the simplest
cases, and there are times when one would like pattern matching to
occur in a different context than that of the current directory.

Another general Unix tenet is that one can develop a prototype in Shell
and convert to C relatively painlessly*. If one has to figure out how
deeply to nest quotes to make the Shell happy and cause things to have
the desired interpretation, it would seem that the user is being forced
to take some VERY implementation-dependent information into account...


					James Jones (ihuxl!jej)

* in those cases where efficiency forces one to, that is...