| Bill Jonas on Tue, 5 Nov 2002 19:00:04 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:49:55PM -0500, Bob Schwier wrote: > DOS does wildcards but not as politely as Linux. In a Linux or Unix > environment, I can type ls w*.txt and get results. DOS only permits me to > type either dir word.* or *.txt to get results. Actually, IIRC, DOS will let you specify that sort of wildcard pattern and get results. The thing it doesn't do is let you specify multiple wildcards when you have an asterisk. I.E., you can say w*.txt, but w*c*.txt and w*a?d.txt are taken to be equivalent to w*.txt. (Something like w?ldc?rd.txt is interpreted in the way you'd expect.) Of course, I could be wrong on that. ObLinux: Humorix reports that RedHat has taken steps to "unify" the CLI experience in RH Linux 8.0 by combining features of bash and csh, in addition to the work they've already done on GNOME and KDE. Also, they are unifying the text-editing experience; 8.0 apparently ships with "vimacs" and "emavics". Full story at <http://i-want-a-website.com/about-linux/articles/sep02/nullify.shtml>. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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