On 06/12/2016 12:40, Gregory Ewing wrote:
BartC wrote:
I've given a dozen examples where the shell's auto-expansion can screw
things up.
Only because you're taking Windows conventions and trying
to apply them to Unix.
What, the convention of NOT assuming that any command parameter that
uses * or ? MUST refer to whatever set of filenames happen to match in
the current directory? And to then insert N arbitrary filenames in the
parameter list.
That's a pretty good convention, yes?!
(Or should that be yesx! yesy!)
That's like somebody from the USA visiting Britain and
thinking "OMG! These people are all going to get themselves
killed, they're driving on the wrong side of the road!"
Or someone from Britain visiting the USA and saying OMG, everyone's got
a gun! Suppose someone runs amok and shoots everybody!
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