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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Globbing
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 15:47:46 GMT

In article <MWM.91Mar18160044@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes:
>    And, of course, since the shell is doing the globbing you *can* implement
>    this in UNIX. You can't in AmigaOS, VMS, or other systems where the program
>    does the globbing.

> Sorry, but that's not true. I've been doing it on AmigaDOS.  It's
> primitive, because the globbing tool is kludged, but it does work.

Sigh. Teach me to not qualify my comments, will you? Take that! And that!

Look, the point is that you can't do it without creating all sorts of
problems, because (as you noted)...

> All it takes are tools designed for handling multiple file arguments.

... it requires tools that take multiple arguments. On AmigaDOS, because
the tools are written to do the globbing themselves, they don't.

> Maybe we should define globbing. The discussion seems to imply that
> it's "regular expression matching against the local file system name
> space," with specific arguments that matching against other parts of
> the file system aren't globbing. A simple test shows that the file
> system name space (local or not) isn't involved in this operation.

Yes, the implementation sucks. Didn't I just say that?
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