10 Dec
2011
10 Dec
'11
9:29 a.m.
On Dec 10, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
What is so tough is the way that the shell expands
them, not the
command. I am assured this is wonderfully useful for many people but
for me it's a complete PITA. For instance, I frequently need to do
things like:
REN *.log *.old
... which works fine on DOS, Windows and most other OSs but doesn't
work on Unix/Linux.
In general, because file extensions are a sort of grafted-on
afterthought on Unix, I find it handles them very poorly, whereas they
were and remain integral to DOS-based & Windows-based systems - i.e.
about 95% of the machines I support.
"Poorly" is in the eye of the beholder; I tend to assume that the wildcard is
just a literal substitution. Unix doesn't support a many-to-many reassignment for
"mv" (I suppose you could call that a deficit), so the wildcard wouldn't do
anything useful in any case.
My current plan is to train as a TEFL teacher and
spend a few years
roaming the world, learning new languages and living in exotic places.
After that, who knows?
Always sounded like a nice boat ticket to exotic places to me. It's either that or
the Navy, where you have to point guns at the exotic places, which wouldn't have sat
well with me.
- Dave