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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 07:46 +0000, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Markus E Leypold wrote:
> >> $ echo *.ads   # argument text is a pattern
> >> *.ads          #   output text is a pattern
> 
> Not if you use csh:
>  >> % echo *.ads
>  >> echo: No match

Yes, but the absence of a match prevents the whole
thing from being run. That is, zero args is very different
from 1 .. n args. Yet another philosophy.
   

>  >> % ls *.ads
>  >> No match
> 
> This is hardly new -

Yes.