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Warp wrote:
> The shell doing the expansion rather than the program is a rather clever
> idea.
It has its drawbacks, too. Having a file named -rf in your home directory
leads to problems, for example. Before shells properly escaped everything,
files with spaces in the names were very problematic as well.
> Filtering some files through a chain of programs (such as grep and sed)
> takes just a few seconds of writing a few commands on the command line.
> Writing a program to do that would probably take a hundred times longer.
Depends on your tools at hand and what kind of files you're searching.
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