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Wed Dec 30 23:32:46 1981
Command line wild card expansion
From: John C. Gilmore <GNU MIT-AI AT>
Data General AOS (a very Unix-like system, with many of Unix's
rough edges gone) does as BJ suggests: the shell doesn't
expand command line filename arguments, but the kernel provides
a "Give me all filenames matching this pattern" facility.
The end result is that no programs but the shell actually
do wildcard expansion.  If you want it expanded you can
invoke a shell "pseudo-macro" on the command line like
       ed [!file foo]
Typically this happens inside a shell macro anyway, so it's
pretty invisible to the user.

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