Osamu Aoki wrote:
If you want multiple files open, use xargs.
Unix tools tend to do one thing at a time.
Keeping this bug report serves no purpose. Closing.
I disagree. It's common that Unix tools can handle filename globbing.
e.g. Are you suggesting that one should use xargs with ls to list all
the files matching a certain pattern?
I would have looked to see where it was an "upstream design decision"
but I couldn't find the upstream bug tracker. The last comment in this
bug report
However I'm not going to play bug tennis by re-opening the bug report,
I'll leave it to someone else. But far from "serving no purpose", this
bug *still* annoys me, and has done for many years.
Antony
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