On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > Nothing prevents you writing an extremely simple shell yourself you know. It > needn't expand anything. _Or_ you could have it adopt the inverse > convention: expand nothing unless asked. Eg: > > cp G:*.c > > to cause "*.c" to get expanded. Of course, because the various executables > don't feel any burden to implement globbing you may run into some impedence > mismatch.
I actually have something like this in one application's inbuilt command executor - it does globbing ONLY if the parameter starts with a question mark (eg "?*.c" will glob "*.c" in that directory). It's deliberate, but frankly, it ends up annoying more often than not. I'm considering switching to a more normal way of doing it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
