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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