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Re: Globbing
> But speaking of feeping creatures and kludgy workarounds, what do you
> think about the shell putting the (unglobbed) command line in an
> environment variable? Then commands that want to do their own globbing
> would be able to.
I'm sorry, that's just tooooo MS-DOSish for words. Please don't even think
about it. We'll end up with about fifty different application-specific schemes
for wildcard expansion. Putting a %glob hook in is far neater, if you're going
to change things.
pete
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