[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/8/2024 3:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>> It also has much more powerful pattern matching than DCL offers, which
>> is why I would like to see it on VMS.
> 
> regexps are built into a lot of Unix utilities at fairly low levels and
> this is incredibly powerful.
> 
> But I cannot say "mv *.txt *.dat" in order to change every file extension
> in the current working directory.  This is the downside.

But DCL is not bash.

I actually think it could work in DCL.

$ SET PROC/GLOB=ON
$ REN *.TXT "*.DAT"

could be interpreted as:

$ REN 1.TXT,2.TXT,3.TXT *.DAT

Arne