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SubjectRe: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.
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On Friday, 25 June 1999, Linus Torvalds writes:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Wolfgang Walter wrote:

[..]

> Think of it as the concept of dot-files, but taken to a higher level:
> dot-files are there to hide the details, but quite frankly they don't do
> all that good a job of it, and then when you occasionally want to look at
> one of them and do the normal
>
> ls -ld .??*
>
> you end up in shock.

Indeed. What about, as some of us will never forget, the horror of

rm -<your favourite flags here> .??*

Wouldn't it be sane to have '.*' not include the parent directory, or
not expand (per default) to '..*'. How many examples are there where
'commmand .*' actually should, or is expected to include '../'?


Jan.

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/ | http://www.lilypond.org/

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