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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaDos vs Unix wildcards/pathnames
Message-ID: <10260015@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 89 23:47:35 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.sys.amiga / daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) / Mar 13, 1989 /
>And how would you succinctly state:
>
>	Delete #?(.cp|.h|%) 
>
>in UNIX-ese?

	rm *{.cp,.h,%}

> > 1> copy (*.c|*.h) t:    (what's wrong with `cp *.c *.h t:' ??)
> 
> That's a detail of the AmigaDOS copy program, not the wild card system.

Interesting that you should mention that.  In Unix, it would be a detail of
the shell, not the program.

Unix commands do not have consistent option specifications, but they ARE
consistent, as the user sees them, when it comes to wildcards.  This, of
course, is because most of them don't deal with wildcards at all, because
they know the shell is there to do it for them.

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore