News: California city implements Asterisk; saves $260K

[Ben Scott]

On Feb 7, 2008 1:01 PM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> My first reaction when seeing that subject line was: "What?  What did
> they use instead of * ?  What other metacharacters were they lacking?"

  Yes, before they implemented asterisk, they had to type out every
file name manually.  Now they can just do "rm *.c".  Obviously, in a
directory full of source files, this is a huge improvement.  They were
able to eliminate three full-time positions whose only job was typing
out file names.  Hence the cost savings.

-- Fnord