Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wild Cards, file syntax (was: arp CD command change???) Message-ID: <6051@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 89 19:36:19 GMT References: <8902131846.AA21527@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <35960@bbn.COM> <5985@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 33 In article deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) writes: >I don't like / >for the parent directory. It's just weird. But that's preference, as >well. Matt Dillon argues that "/" is much easier to type for parent >directory. That may be, but going back more than one directory is >fairly uncommon in my experience, and I'd rather use "../file" than "/file" >to refer to a file in the parent directory. It is clearer and less >prone to error. (Accidental keybounce on the /, etc...) I often have to look and count ../'s to figure out how many levels I've gone up (I often need multiple ../'s). Personal preference, what you were raised on. > >$There is no easy equivilent for "./file" under AmigaDOS... > > > >This is surely rather unimportant as the current directory is usually > >searched FIRST anyway. > >Unimportant, hell. *Maybe* I don't WANT to have the current directory >searched first. Unix: ./file AmigaDos: file Easy equivalent. Concerning wildcards, the amiga wildcards are fairly versatile: '#', '?' and (...|...|...) can be very useful (yes, I know about {..,...}). I agree * is more convenient than #?, but the use of * as an escape is a holdover from the BCPL/TriPos heritage of AmigaDos (like \ is a holdover in unix shells from C). -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup