[Info-vax] Unix and DCL shells

[Bob Eager]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:19:22 +0000, 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.
> --scott

Agreed. But there is a commonly available utility for that.