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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:57:41 +0100
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> But if the programs do the expansion, you can be certain that the
> expansion will differ from program to program. �Wouldn't that be
> much more inconsistent than having known, uniform rules? �(even if
> you don't like them)

Well, all VMS programs I know of - apart from GNV [1] applications - expand
the same way including [...]*.TXT expanding recursively. Something you
won't get in unix where you need to guess which  -r, -R, --recursive option
gets you recursive behaviour. Actually: none - you will need:

find . -iname "*.TXT" -print0 | xargs  --null --no-run-if-empty my_command

(did you allways remember to use: "--no-run-if-empty").

Again: the unix way is convenient at start but does not scale all that well
for more complex problems.

Martin

[1] Note: GNAT for VMS is GNV application :-/ .

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