On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 05:13:06PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
>> What's the deal?
>
>History and gratuitous incompatibility. The Bourne shell's globbing
>support was influenced by the wild card support of earlier command
>lines like Digital's various OSes and Multics. (The DOS command
>line's wildcard abilities are very similar to the Digital shells of
>the 1970s.)
It seems to me that one of the biggest mistakes of the Lucent crew with
Plan 9 was their failure to make the command interpreter, rc, directly
support regular expressions.
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