Re: Globbing

[pete@minster.york.ac.uk]

> 	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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