Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Brian May schrieb:

>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>     Martin> No, The VMS also won't expand wildcard. In fact Unix
>     Martin> shells are pretty alone here. And they got it wrong. Bot
>     Martin> Dos and VMS will warn you on:
> 
>     Martin> DEL *.*
> 
>     Martin> but not on
> 
>     Martin> DEL Some_File.Txt
> 
> I realize this thread is old, but if I type "rm *", my shell (zsh) asks:
> 
> zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /tmp/a [yn]?

Others pointed out Z Shell as well which got me to give Z Shell a try. 
And you know what: I like it!

> 
> DOS *still* has this broken special case *.* wildcard? That is dated
> from 8.3 filenames.

DOS is not the only one, VMS got that as well - only VMS has 32.32 file 
names (unless you use the POSIX compliant ODS5 file system).

As for windows Yes and no! *.* and * will both delete the same file list:

-----------------------------------------
 >del *
C:\Temp\temp\* : Are you sure (Y/N)? Y
Deleting C:\Temp\temp\x
Deleting C:\Temp\temp\x.x
      2 files deleted
-----------------------------------------
 >del *.*
C:\Temp\temp\*.* : Are you sure (Y/N)? Y
Deleting C:\Temp\temp\x
Deleting C:\Temp\temp\x.x
      2 files deleted
-----------------------------------------

Dos and Windows are of course a mess - my quote was more in the 
direction of VMS. The VMS shell has very good foundations but is lacking 
in eye candy, syntactic sugar and bells&whistles. - Sufficiently lacking 
that working with it is unpleasant.

Martin