Macaroni (shells)
20-May-89 23:16:43
Sb: #49451-Macaroni (shells)
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Jeff Wilbourn 76657,2454
Jeff,
I prefer shell expansion for one simple reason…it's uniform. A
program merely needs to check for only 2 things:
1. stdin redirected (input from a pipe)
2. number of command line arguments
That way, wildcards are uniform also. Right now, there are programs
that use the Amiga wildcards, UNIX wildcards or ignore wildcards. With shell
expansion, you know immediately where the fault lies when a command can't
handle multiple arugments.
Don