On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Richard Troth wrote:
By the way ... Unix cheats. The shell expands all wildcards, which I have always said is a mistake because it presumes on the context. The shell can only expand wildcards that are filenames. Not everything you might want to wildcard is a file. Wouldn't it be nice if you could 'ifconfig eth*'?
Wouldn't it be nice if Unix worked like Unix was supposed to work, and everything *WERE* a file?
Yeah, yeah, I know, Plan 9 is right over there if I want it. Adam
