From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or a feature?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:49:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4109a95286b1ab5e60c5fff7b21cfa01@collyer.net> (raw)
I've always understood the utility of passing through a failed glob pattern
to be that some programs do their own globbing (as I recall, find and tar
are the two main candidates, maybe restor) and if the user forgets
to (or deliberated doesn't) quote the pattern and it doesn't match anything,
the program gets to glob it. How useful this is may depend upon your
feelings about quoting in general.
I do think that the current behaviour is more helpful than expanding
to a null list would be. If the pattern doesn't match, you've very likely
made a mistake. I'd rather have ``cat ?akefile'' print
cat: can't open ?akefile: '?akefile' directory entry not found
and exit than have it just sit there reading standard input.
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-12 23:49 Geoff Collyer [this message]
2002-06-13 0:07 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 0:31 ` Pavel Mihaylov
2002-06-13 2:29 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-27 20:30 Byron Rakitzis
2002-07-27 12:10 presotto
2002-07-27 2:43 Byron Rakitzis
2002-06-13 23:05 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 23:23 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 20:35 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 20:58 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-13 21:34 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2002-06-13 3:41 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 1:01 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 17:40 ` Dan Cross
[not found] <dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-12 19:57 ` Dennis Ritchie
2002-06-12 20:16 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-12 19:52 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-12 21:57 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-12 22:53 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 16:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-12 9:15 forsyth
2002-06-13 9:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-11 15:32 Russ Cox
2002-06-11 15:29 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-11 21:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 21:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-12 5:17 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-12 8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-11 15:26 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-11 15:14 andrey mirtchovski
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