Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> writes: > Joshua Branson <jbra...@fastmail.com> writes: > >> It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to >> transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that >> translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html >> file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be something different? > > Or imagine installing a packages from remote servers with shell globbing: > > pkg --install /http://ftp.gnu.org/packages/*/*.deb > > Last time I used the Hurd, some variant of this actually worked.
Isn't that super cool? > > Best wishes, > Arne
