On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:40 PM, McKown, John<[email protected]> wrote:
> This is almost like MS-DOS. The MS-DOS command prompt did not do any file > name expansion, but passed the * on to the CP. Therefore, everything that > wanted to accept wild cards had to implement the logic in themselves. I > remember doing this. Puh. I found that the "MS Opens Hell" supports the autofill with TAB (dunno how Linux calls that) by taking it as "any file that starts" - this is even worse than the MS-DOS Command Prompt that just moved to the point where it could not decide anymore. PS Sloppy typing on SCP commands resulted in some unwanted files like [email protected] on my workstation. I am very happy to use them with the TAB key when typing in ssh or scp commands :-) Rob
