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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: more rm insanity
Message-ID: <6774@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 02:08:22 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6774
Posted: Wed Dec  2 02:08:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 09:18:20 EST
References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> <9555@mimsy.UUCP> <1890@celtics.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1890@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>Because, unless one knows and fully understands that globbing is done by
>the shell and not the program, one would expect, as with other operating
>systems...

I guess this adds support to the notion that the normal UNIX shell
interface is not suitable for naive users.  Back when I was first
learning to use UNIX, nobody considered it unreasonable to read
the UNIX tutorial contained near the beginning of the user documents
that came with the system.  I'm sure that the notion that * and ?
were processed by the shell was made clear there.  In fact that is
a key "win" of UNIX over OSes that make applications deal with
globbing.