Wild pathnames

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:01:38 +0000, Antoniotti Marco said:
> 
> The script you posted is (reformatted)
> 
> mkdir -p /tmp/x # Creates directory /tmp/x/
> touch "/tmp/x/" # What is the intended effect here?  
> for i in sbcl ccl clisp cmucl ecl abcl scl allegro lispworks gcl xcl
> do
>     echo $i
>     cl -l $i -iw '(let ((x (directory "/tmp/x/"))) (list "'$i'" x (pathname-name (first x))))'
> done #cl
> 
> 
> If you execute the first two commands on a Mac the result is a just to create the /tmp/x/ directory.

I suspect that some asterisks got lost in the Faré's email and it was supposed
to create a file name with a single asterisk:

touch "/tmp/x/*"

Likewise for all the results ironically under the heading "Escape properly".


> The call to DIRECTORY in LW returns
> 
> CL-USER 1 > (directory "/tmp/x/")
> NIL ; Which may be not be appropriate...

LW's DIRECTORY never returns the directory itself (i.e. "."), but maybe some
other implementations do?

-- 
Martin Simmons
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