Globbing arguments to an external command

One annoying difference between Windows’ old shell and the Unix shell is the lack of globbing on Windows. shx already addresses this for shell builtins and coreutils by including globbing logic in each of the commands’ implementations, but this still leaves external commands that weren’t written with Windows in mind (and thus don’t implement their own globbing) out in the cold. Would you be open to a PR that adds a feature which simply globs all its arguments and runs the result? For example, shx XXX foo * would be equivalent to foo * in a Unix shell. As for naming, command (like the bash builtin) might be an option. Or glob. Or whatever; I’m not picky about the name.

[nfischer]

The reason I wanted exec to be on the blacklist is to nudge people toward running commands like $ cmd -f arg instead of $ shx exec cmd -f arg. This keeps people away from all the exec nastiness, since there’s very little that it brings to the table for shx. There’s no technical reason it couldn’t be removed from the blacklist.

Right now shelljs exec doesn’t actually perform any of its own globing, it still defers to the shell. We have been thinking of ways to rework exec to make it suit the community’s needs better.

I’ll have some time today, so I’ll try to write something up on the shelljs side and see if it’s worth pursuing.

[nfischer]

Merging into #65 (the fix for both is to use shell.cmd() when it’s finished).