Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 15/12/14 01:15, KO Myung-Hun wrote: >> >> >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> forcemerge 19378 19377 >>> stop >>> >>> On 14/12/14 03:47, KO Myung-Hun wrote: >>>> And ln,ls,mv,rm,tail. >>>> >>>> * src/cat.c (main): Expand wildcards on OS/2. >>>> * src/chcon.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/chgrp.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/chmod.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/chown.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/cp.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/du.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/head.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/ln.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/ls.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/mv.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/rm.c (main): Likewise. >>>> * src/tail.c (main): Likewise. >>>> >>>> Patches from coreutils 8.8 by Paul Smedley. >>> >>>> diff --git a/src/cat.c b/src/cat.c >>>> index c7bb7e1..0138114 100644 >>>> --- a/src/cat.c >>>> +++ b/src/cat.c >>>> @@ -544,6 +544,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) >>>> bool show_tabs = false; >>>> int file_open_mode = O_RDONLY; >>>> >>>> +#ifdef __OS2__ >>>> + _wildcard (&argc, &argv); >>>> +#endif >>>> + >>> >>> Interesing, the OS/2 shell doesn't doe the globbing. >> >> Ported unixy shells(sh) support it, but OS/2 default shell(CMD) does not. >> >>> I'm wondering about the scalability of this. >>> Are there any facilities for dealing with arbitrary numbers >>> of files, like with xargs for example? >> >> No. It always processes all files. >> >>> What are the practical limits of the number of files? >> >> It's up to a free memory. >> >>> Does _wildcard() exit with an error in this case? >>> >> >> Call exit(255) with printing an error message. >> > > While the adjustment is small, it would be better to avoid the ifdef in all > programs. > I think there is a -Zwildcard option to auto enable for all programs?
Good guess. -Zargs-wild. > Also is there an option to disable this expansion at runtime > (which should be documented if available). What do you mean by 'at runtime' ? On command line ? Or a function opposite to _wildcard() ? In the former, escaping like unixy shells is used. In the latter, no functions. > For example to allow deleting a file called '*', which seems like a more > likely > occurrence on this platform. > both '*' and '?' are illegal for a filename on OS/2. -- KO Myung-Hun Using Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.7.2 Under OS/2 Warp 4 for Korean with FixPak #15 In VirtualBox v4.1.32 on Intel Core i7-3615QM 2.30GHz with 8GB RAM Korean OS/2 User Community : http://www.ecomstation.co.kr
