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Article #14198Wildcards
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 14:55
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 14:55
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We have on one side the folks saying "I can't trust programmers to put
wildcard matching into programs".
We have on the other side the folks saying "I can't trust programmers to
properly quote shell arguments".
Perhaps the solution is to have a syntax in the shell that says "expand
these wildcards yourself":
1> set quotewild=on
1> frobnitz [#?.bork] ; This expands #?.bork in the shell.
1> frobnitz #?.bork ; This depends on frobnitz to do the expansion.
1> set quotewild=off
1> frobnitz #?.bork ; Now it expands #? in the shell.
1> set wildcards=unix
1> frobnitz *.bork ; For the folks who don't like pure closures.
Scripts would probably run with quotewild on by default, and the more powerful
amiga-style wildcards, and interactive shells would turn quotewild off and use
the terser unix-style wildcards.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Wildcards Message-ID: <5383@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Mar 90 14:55:57 GMT References: <1213@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <13664@nigel.udel.EDU> <1414@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <13677@nigel.udel.EDU> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 25