From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <545bgvF1ttrphU1@mid.individual.net> <1495406.QZvfpqijrQ@linux1.krischik.com> <6dy7mn3hhu.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1172328891.5496.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:39:10 +0100 Message-ID: <58xeclb9d.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AyrytuCRpY7azfhFTRPaxHDNLxs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.72.232.80 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1173058386 88.72.232.80 (5 Mar 2007 02:33:06 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9699 Date: 2007-03-05T02:39:10+01:00 List-Id: Brian May writes: >>>>>> "Georg" == Georg Bauhaus writes: > > Georg> $ echo *.ads > > Get a real shell ! > > I get: > > zsh: no matches found: *.ads You get the same with bash and most bourne shells if you set the appropriate flags here. Instead of answering to any (IMHO) mistaken contribution in this thread here, I was planning to write a little essay "And Unix does it bloody right after all!" (in which I correct all those misconception, write useful things about Unix shell usage and philosophy and post a link here). Alas -- it will not be done soon, as I can already see: I got bogged down in other things. Basically we're back to the old bone of contention (I think we had that at least another time recently about FPLs) between me an Georg: Can a user be bothered to know his/her tools or is the answer (he, Georg, too often gets) to RTM just bloody cheek? I think that cannot be answered finally, but I certainly prefer to have a powerful tool and read the manual and usually I prefer to work with users that can need not be babied through everything and after years of using a "GUI" still do not know about a hierarchical filesystem (not even about the concept, not about the name) and are still absolutely confused about all the things they see on windows explorer. makes finding anything again a bit difficult for them if the "default" directory of an application changed ... Regards -- Markus > which forces you to quote the value if thats what you really wanted: > >> echo "*.ads" > *.ads > > or set NULLGLOB: > >> setopt NULLGLOB >> echo *.ads > > which expands *.ads into nothing. > -- > Brian May