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From: Micah Stetson <micah@cnm-vra.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ls, rc question
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> Do you think that rc globbing returning as many identical words
> as there are directory entries with the same name is in any
> way useful too?

Of course!  Let's suppose you have a multipage document
that you want to print multiple copies of, but you want
all the copies of a single page to print together.  Well,
just split the document into one file per page and then
run 'bind -a . .' followed by 'lp *'.  How cool is that?
This example should make it clear that lp -c is a violation
of the tools approach.

Micah

(For the more serious among us, this is all 'tongue in cheek'.)