Andre van Eyssen wrote:
It's a dose of hell for anyone learning to write scripts.
I don't believe we need an envariable to enable this for several
reasons:
A) envariables don't scale - they are per-user,
per-system, per-problem band-aids. Over time
and over systems, this path leads to chaos.
and, more importantly,
B) we already have precedent in the system that this is
an OK behavior:
% uname -a
SunOS sac 5.11 snv_56 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
% /bin/ls
Old sr.20070223.txt sr.20070406.txt sr.20070518.txt
sr.20070119.txt sr.20070302.txt sr.20070413.txt sr.20070525.txt
sr.20070126.txt sr.20070309.txt sr.20070420.txt sr.template.txt
sr.20070202.txt sr.20070316.txt sr.20070427.txt
sr.20070209.txt sr.20070323.txt sr.20070504.txt
sr.20070219.txt sr.20070330.txt sr.20070511.txt
% /bin/ls | cat -
Old
sr.20070119.txt
sr.20070126.txt
sr.20070202.txt
sr.20070209.txt
sr.20070219.txt
sr.20070223.txt
sr.20070302.txt
sr.20070309.txt
sr.20070316.txt
sr.20070323.txt
sr.20070330.txt
sr.20070406.txt
sr.20070413.txt
sr.20070420.txt
sr.20070427.txt
sr.20070504.txt
sr.20070511.txt
sr.20070518.txt
sr.20070525.txt
sr.template.txt
%
-John
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