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Craig A. Berry <craig.a.berry <at> gmail.com> writes: >On VMS, glob does not split its arguments on whitespace: >I don't know when the split on whitespace feature was introduced but >it was probably an oversight or lack of tuits that kept it from >getting added to the VMS implementation. AFAIK, glob splitting on whitespace was an accident of its original implementation (which worked by running an external tcsh) and was preserved for compatibility when glob became implemented by Perl code. Personally I'm not a fan of this behaviour - it tends to cause bugs when file or directory names contain spaces, as is nowadays common on Windows and Mac systems. The fact that split-at-space has never happened on VMS might be another argument towards deprecating it. -- Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next