redirection before wildcards
Andrew Klossner
andrew at frip.gwd.tek.com
Sun Jun 12 09:37:40 AEST 1988
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"for curiosity's sake, why exactly are redirections performed
*before* wildcard expansions?"
So that, in simple-minded shells without filename completion, I can type
filter <in* | lpr
to mean
filter <in_service_report.88Apr12.version2A | lpr
-=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%tekecs.tek.com at relay.cs.net) [ARPA]
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