Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!dawn!stpeters From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity) Message-ID: <8111@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 14:20:32 EST Article-I.D.: steinmet.8111 Posted: Sat Dec 5 14:20:32 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 20:09:05 EST References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> <9555@mimsy.UUCP> <890@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <9610@mimsy.UUCP> Sender: root@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 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.) -- Dick St.Peters GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@ge-crd.arpa uunet!steinmetz!stpeters