Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

["Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>]

On Feb 23, 5:28 am, brian.b.mcguinn...@lmco.com wrote:

> 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.

Flexibility is good, but it's no excuse for not providing simple,
intuitive solutions to simple tasks.  And certainly, if Unix worked
the way some of us would prefer, that would not prevent Unix from also
providing commands sucb as the above to handle less-simple cases.
This is another of my pet peeves, i.e. somebody trying to excuse a
hard-to-use user interface by talking about its "flexibility" or how
powerful it is.  That doesn't cut it, because there's no reason not to
provide both.  Other than laziness, that is.

                          -- Adam