[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Chris Townley]

On 08/01/2024 15:51, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 

Problem there is line length limits. I have frequently had that problem 
on *nix

-- 
Chris