Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

[brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com]

On Feb 22, 12:07 pm, "Adam Beneschan" <a...@irvine.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 3:19 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen <r...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>
> Sigh... this has been one of my pet peeves with Unix for a long time.
> With other operating systems I've worked with, you can enter a command
> like
>
>    rename *.ads *.ada
>
> for instance, to rename a bunch of files.  Unix makes this difficult.
> (Yes, I know how to use "foreach" in csh... but still...)
>
>                        -- Adam

The Unix solution is more compliocated, but also more flexible.  For
example, I often do something like this:

for FILE in *; do mv "$FILE" $(echo $FILE | sed 's/ /_/g'); done

to replace blanks in file names with underscores.

I suppose that one could get the advantages of both the Unix and
Windows approaches by reversing the usual Unix approach and having
the user explicitly request expansions where desired, e.g.

mv @(*.txt) dest

to move all *.txt files to dest.

--- Brian