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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Wildcard expansion
Message-ID: <143@dragon.tc.fluke.COM>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 11:52:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 11:52:03 1986
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I am not so convinced that automatic wildcard expansion (which UNIX people
apparently call file globbing) in the shell is A Good Thing.  Anyone remenber
commands like

PIP foo.* = bar.*

which would copy bar.c to foo.c, bar.rel to foo.rel, bar.exe to foo.exe?
You just can't do that on UNIX.  Also you sometimes find file globbing to be
a surprise when you are composing a string to grep or sed.  If there is a
convenient globbing function in the library, per-command file globbing
doesn't have to be such a hassle.  Really per-command file globbing is more
flexible.  Oh, well...