[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/8/2024 10:35 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/8/2024 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Things I would like to see from bash in DCL:
>>
>> Filename globbing.
> 
> Don't have a clue what globbing is.  Probably don't want to know anyway.

Wildcard expansion in the shell not the program.

If you have a VMS Basic program that you run with:

$ mcr []df *.bas

then your Basic program sees one argument with *.bas and can lookup
the matching files with LIB$FIND_FILE or whatever.

If Simons idea get implemented and enabled then your Basic program
would see N arguments with DF.BAS, X.BAS, Y.BAS etc. - DCL would expand
the wildcards instead of leaving it to the program.

It is a *nix thing.

>> Tab completion of files/directories with list of matches at each stage.
> 
> You're discussing something that might be useful on a personal 
> workstation.  Not something very useful on a server type of system.

I think system managers of servers could benefit as well.

Arne