Asri-unix.383 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!GNU@MIT-AI Wed Dec 30 23:32:46 1981 Command line wild card expansion From: John C. Gilmore Data General AOS (a very Unix-like system, with many of Unix's rough edges gone) does as BJ suggests: the shell doesn't expand command line filename arguments, but the kernel provides a "Give me all filenames matching this pattern" facility. The end result is that no programs but the shell actually do wildcard expansion. If you want it expanded you can invoke a shell "pseudo-macro" on the command line like ed [!file foo] Typically this happens inside a shell macro anyway, so it's pretty invisible to the user. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.