On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 +0000 (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > >> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this >> > feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command >> > itself: it will see the * literally in the parameters. >> >> Well, technically, that depends on what shell you're running. That's >> true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells. It's not true with some >> others. >> >> When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is >> done by the shell: the way god intended. ;) > > Hell yeah! :-) > > Tho I'd expect that globbing done by the shell won't play well with > most traditional DOS commands. I guess those shells also brought their > own built-in commands?
Yes, those shells came with a complete set of command line utilities (ls, find, grep, cat, ed, awk, ...). Under DOS, I always ran MKS Toolkit (korn shell): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Toolkit On Windows, I use Cygwin (bash shell). I have vague memories of using Interix for a while, but that may have been just for the X server. And, back in my VMS days, I used DECShell (a Posix shell and complete set of unix utilities). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ANN JILLIAN'S HAIR at makes LONI ANDERSON'S gmail.com HAIR look like RICARDO MONTALBAN'S HAIR!
