Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity) Message-ID: <1688@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 05:12:14 GMT References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> <9555@mimsy.UUCP> <890@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <9610@mimsy.UUCP> <8111@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 11 In article <8111@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes: >(It pains me to say it, but I think you can get the >unglobbed command line in VMS: lib$get_command or some such.) In the VMS environment, "unglobbed" does not mean "ungarbled". Anything that isn't quoted, VMS changes to uppercase before you get to see it. Staunch VMS defenders consider this to be a highly desirable feature. Ahem. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP:!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi