separate the command language and interactive shell

[Chris Siebenmann]

john at sco.COM (John R. MacMillan) writes:
| Ideally, the ``dead weight'' completion code that is indeed common
| (scanning the directory and matching) never gets paged in when the
| program is running in batch mode.  And if you put it in a shared
| library, it doesn't even take up disk space.

 There are a surprising amount of use of completion/shell filename
expansion used in 'batch' shell scripts, at least in the shell scripts
I tend to write. Most of the nominally interactive features in my
(sh-like) shell tend to get used in shell scripts, and most of the
nominally shell-script oriented ones have gotten used for interactive
stuff.

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