To:	djgpp <uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!djgpp AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET>
Subject:	Re: Last word (for now) on globbing
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 92 22:19:43 PST
From:	Jonathan Ryshpan <hitachi!halsoft!jon AT uunet DOT UU DOT NET>
Status:	O

>>Just a note: I added globbing to go32 1.06 over the weekend.  It's
>>primitive, but it works.

>	The simplest example of a program which fails if the shell
>does globbing is something like WHEREIS which searches an entire disk
>for a file matching a wildcard.  If the shell expands the wildcard, you
>get an error if it doesn't match something in the current directory, or
>if something does match, then WHEREIS doesn't see the wildcard.

The equivalent of WHEREIS under Unix is, of course, find.  You have to
quote or escape the -name argument, if it contains a wild card.  This
is about the only case that I've been annoyed by the expansion of wild
cards by the shell in Unix.  It's a small price to pay for a completely
uniform globbing mechanism that lets you type "more inv*1997" for "more
inventory-for-june-1997", etc.  It's easier to remember the shell's
globbing rules than which programs glob and which don't.

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