[Ilugc] grep error

  • From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
  • Date: Wed Mar 16 07:15:30 2005

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:06:47 +0600, Haran Shivanan
<shivanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A lot of software doesn't do globbing *at all*.
(I suppose that those that do, would use the existing library)
And its not just the expansion of wild-cards.
Even things like "substituting ~/ for the users' home directory" are not
done.

That's right. They don't do it because they rely on the shell to do it for them.

Haven't we come a full circle here?

Binand

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