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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:03:48 +1100
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>>>>> "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]?


DOS *still* has this broken special case *.* wildcard? That is dated
from 8.3 filenames. Under Unix this will not list files that don't
contain a full-stop.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>