Paul Moore wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 December 2016 21:44:18 UTC, Gregory Ewing wrote:
What you need to understand is that, to a Unix user, * and ? are *just as
well known* as |, < and >.
And to Windows users. Just because BartC is proposing a silly distinction
between what "Unix users" and "Windows users" expect, doesn't mean there is
such a distinction.
Yes, Windows users will know about * too, but their understanding
of it will be different.
The real point is that Unix users will know that it has a
special meaning to the shell and work accordingly. They won't
be tripped up by the kind of problems Bart imagines they
will have with arguments containing *.
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Greg
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