Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: globbing in the shell (Was Re: more rm insanity) Message-ID: <6389@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 23:34:58 GMT References: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6840002@hpcllmv.HP.COM> <9555@mimsy.UUCP> <1890@celtics.UUCP> <6774@brl-smoke.ARPA> <12441@think.UUCP> <6356@ncoast.UUCP> <1975@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 19 As quoted from <1975@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> by wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld): +--------------- | In article <6356@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: | >In article <12441@think.UUCP> by barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes: | >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 unix"?! We run Unix on ncoast. No tcsh, no GNU Emacs (won't fit). AT&T UNIX System III is just as much Unix as 4BSD is... so I cope. The use of wildcards is the *only* way to do it here; that, or type the full pathname (even with only 14 characters max. per component, this can be painful). -- Brandon S. Allbery necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu {hoptoad,harvard!necntc,cbosgd,sun!mandrill!hal,uunet!hnsurg3}!ncoast!allbery Moderator of comp.sources.misc