Symlinks and ..
Peter da Silva
peter at ficc.uu.net
Thu Nov 23 10:02:05 AEST 1989
While we're adding new syntax to the shell...
Personally I think "..." should be a wildcard denoting a recursive search:
echo .../*.c
This should be equivalent to:
echo `find . -name '*.c' -print`
Prior art: VMS does it this way.
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