Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:
> Only the application knows which arguments can have a meaning of a
> file-pattern, so may be globbed.

.... and that in a wonderful inconsistent way:

C:\> cd Prog*
C:\Programme>

Note: Globbing is technically wrong here since "cd" only expects a single
directory name as an argument.

[In a directory with lots of .TXT-Files]

C> notepad *.txt
[a dialog pops up
The syntax for file name, directory name or volume name is wrong
(manually translated)]

Note: Globbing makes sense here because I might want to edit multiple files
at the same time.

It's better let this shell doing this. And your famous "-rf" filename:
-- is your fried. A much better work-around than begging for each
application programmer implementing globbing consistent.


> Hope this s,

Hope this s,

--
Daniel