[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Dave Froble]

On 1/8/2024 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-01-07, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>> The whole command-line concept on VMS is fundamentally flawed. Notice that
>>> on *nix, the command line is not a single string, it is an array of
>>> strings. This makes it easy to pass special characters that might mean
>>> something to the shell, simply by bypassing the shell.
>>
>> Having made the Unix-to-VMS transition in the late eighties, the two things
>> I really liked about DCL were the handling of wildcards and the ability to
>> use [....] for recursive file paths.  I would love to have those two things
>> in bash.
>>
>
> Things I would like to see from bash in DCL:

Ya know Simon, JF once asked for password completion.  Not all desires are 
reasonable.

:-)


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