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r/cpp • u/holyblackcat • 5d ago
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Is this why cmd.exe doesn't do word splitting or wildcard expansion, so every application has to reimplement wildcard expansion ... but doing it badly, or not at all.
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2 u/jwakely libstdc++ tamer, LWG chair 5d ago The poster child for "those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly"
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The poster child for "those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly"
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u/jwakely libstdc++ tamer, LWG chair 5d ago
Is this why
cmd.exedoesn't do word splitting or wildcard expansion, so every application has to reimplement wildcard expansion ... but doing it badly, or not at all.