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Article #62987Re: Hurd questions
From: Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:08
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:08
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> writes:
In article <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) writes:
>> 12) Will hurd give one a way to ask if you really meant
>> to say 'rm *'? How about other common stupid mistakes
>> a unix person might do?
Martin> This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.
Not that easy.
Why ??
You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
rm or the shell ??
the shell does the expansion and forward it to rm as parameters.
rm will find the list in argv.
How is rm gonna know argv is the result of a * substitution.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,ef34758fb4e8c162 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-27 17:52:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.chalmers.se!ida.his.se!news.ida.his.se!sp2stes1 From: Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Hurd questions Date: 27 Mar 1995 09:08:01 GMT Organization: University of Skoevde, Skoevde Sweden Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SP2STES1.95Mar27110801@sol1.ida.his.se> References: <81696@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> Reply-To: Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1 In-reply-to: tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at's message of 22 Mar 1995 15:22:18 GMT