[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-08, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> 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.
>

It also has much more powerful pattern matching than DCL offers, which
is why I would like to see it on VMS.

For David's benefit:

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/globbingref.html

DCL doesn't have anything that even begins to compare with that.

Simon.

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