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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity)
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 14:20:32 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 14:20:32 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 20:09:05 EST
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: CMDLINE environment variable -> excellent idea!

In article <9610@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>One suggestion I have heard, which makes some sense to me, would
>be to have the shell provide an environment variable giving the
>exact command line used to invoke any particular command:

I like this!  (It pains me to say it, but I think you can get the
unglobbed command line in VMS: lib$get_command or some such.)
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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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