Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!rmi!wsiebeck
From: wsiebeck@rmi.UUCP (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: WILDCARD
Keywords: wildcard
Message-ID: <1151@rmi.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 88 09:53:40 GMT
References: <11675@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: wsiebeck@rmi.UUCP (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Organization: RMI Net, Aachen, W.Germany
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In article <11675@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
: 
:   for %n in (*.c) do beautify %n
: 
Hi! You will get a problem, if Your 'beautify' creates .BAK-Files.
I guess DOS does the following:
  - Look up first matching filename
  - Pass it to beautify
    - beautify renames input to *.BAK, and creates a new file *.C, which
      is positioned at the end of the directory.
  - DOS looks up the next matching name ...
I tried "for %i in (*.txt) do ws %i", and after editing one of the files
for the third time, I had to use ctrl-alt-del ....

So: there is a need for a 'real' wildcarder ...

-ws