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Aucbvax.5135 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Nov 12 03:45:16 1981 argv and raw command line >From ihuxl!jej@Berkeley Thu Nov 12 00:19:12 1981 Re gwyn@UTEXAS-11's comment: it may run counter to the general Unix philosophy, but quoting is a massive pain in all but the simplest cases, and there are times when one would like pattern matching to occur in a different context than that of the current directory.

Another general Unix tenet is that one can develop a prototype in Shell and convert to C relatively painlessly*. If one has to figure out how deeply to nest quotes to make the Shell happy and cause things to have the desired interpretation, it would seem that the user is being forced to take some VERY implementation-dependent information into account...

James Jones (ihuxl!jej)

* in those cases where efficiency forces one to, that is...

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