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
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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.
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"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
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