Sunday, May 15, 2005 [Tweets]

Wildcard Expansion on Windows and Unix

Dan Crevier:

On unix (including Mac OS X shells) wildcard expansion is done by the shell, and then the expanded list of files is passed on to the program being run. On Windows, the shell doesn’t do any expansion, and it’s up to programs to do expansion.

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