Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!wesommer From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity) Message-ID: <1975@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 06:09:50 EST Article-I.D.: bloom-be.1975 Posted: Mon Dec 7 06:09:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 10:20:39 EST References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 19 In article <6356@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: >In article <12441@think.UUCP> by barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes: >> Finally, even when an argument is a pathname, it is sometimes not >> allowed to be multiple files. For example, diff takes pathnames, but >> it requires exactly two of them, and ar allows only one archive >> pathname to be specified. On Multics, a command with a syntax like >> this can check whether the argument contains wildcards and complain. >So, how many times have you abbreviated a filename which you know is unique >with a well-placed "*"? Rarely; it all depends on what you are used to. On unix, using tcsh, I hit 'TAB', and have the shell or emacs complete the filename for me. On Multics, segments generally have short add_names which are easy to type -- for example, ">user_dir_dir>Multics>Margolin" is otherwise known as ">udd>m>barmar". Bill Sommerfeld wesommer@athena.mit.edu