--- Goetz Neumann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > donna garverick wrote:
> >
> > <ack> you don't need to run grep thru the shell.  you don't WANT to
> > run grep thru the shell.
>
> I'll beg to disagree:
>
> Gehan showed that he is passing wildcarded names,
> only the shell can do the filename expansion, IIRC.

uh...well...ummm....i think it stands to reason that a grep-based
script is going to accept wild-carding on the command line... :-)  - d

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