Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!umix!umich!mibte!gamma!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CLI/shells Message-ID: <1941@sugar.UUCP> Date: 6 May 88 09:51:32 GMT References: <8805052308.AA05229@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 13 In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > (3) get rid of that damn blasted #? wildcard crap and replace it > with something more general (*/?). (ala unix) What do you mean? #? is more general than *?, since # is actually a closure operator (like * in regular expressions) not a wildcard. Now, "[]", "{,}", and so on are more versatile than #?, but they can be added in (as they are in Jeff Lydiatt's wildcard code... you know: the code you took out of my file requestor). -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.