From: "Julian L. Ho" <jh6j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: rc@archone.tamu.edu
Subject: file globbing on command names
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 14:45:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <695075883.4747.0@sherlock.bh.andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
(from the rc man page:
PATTERN MATCHING
There are two forms of pattern matching in rc. One is traditional shell
globbing. This occurs in matching for file names in argument lists:
command argument argument ...
When the characters *, [ or ? occur in an argument, rc looks at the
argument as a pattern for matching against files.
)
rc 1.2 seems to glob commands as well as arguments. either it or the man page
needs changed... the man page seems to say that if I have an executable at
the front of my path named 'echo?', i can type:
echo? foo bar
to run it... but this isn't so if there is a file named 'echox' in the
current directory... rc behaves as if I had typed 'echox foo bar'.
-J
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