Huidae Cho wrote: > Some modules also use * for a special case and I didn't have an > expansion problem with them either.
AFAIK, all the modules which currently use "*" do so because it's part of standard glob or regex syntax. For most utilities, using the shell's wildcard syntax makes the need for quoting inevitable (e.g. the find(1) manual page explicitly mentions this in relation to the -name, -iname etc options). GRASS "gets away with it" because of the option=value syntax and the fact that "=" is uncommon in filenames. > I think '--option value' is a valid point though. Are we going to > ever change option=value to --option value or planning to do so? I doubt that we'd change it in the sense of abandoning support for the existing syntax, but modifying G_parser() to allow either form probably wouldn't require much work. -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
