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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:25:42 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak a �crit :
> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> 
>> Too bad that Unix behaviour was wrong in the first place...
> 
> I don't understand. Shell uses some special characters to make it easier 
> for the user to type commands [1]. Wildcards are just an example. 
> Consider this:
> 
> $ cat *.ads *.adb | wc -l > loc.txt
> 
> If you claim that * above should be passed "as is" to the program (cat), 
> so that the program can figure out on itself what to do with it, then 
> you might as well argue that the program should figure out *everything* 
> above. Obviously, that wouldn't be funny.
> 
I claim it would be easier to provide a function that expands 
parameters, than to force expansion. Or maybe just provide another 
function that provides the raw parameters.

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