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From: gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <00087@meph.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 91 03:20:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.152347.28521@dgbt.doc.ca> <474@bria> <19217@cbmvax.commodore.com> <5573:Feb2307:19:4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <00085@meph.UUCP> <10803@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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Organization: WICAT Systems Inc., Orem Utah
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In article <10803@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>(Sigh, I had hoped my observation that `what works in one system is not
>necessarily appropriate/best for all' would end this, but...:)
>
>In article <00085@meph.UUCP> gsarff@meph.UUCP writes:
>>Sorry for the diatribe ...
>
>I am not going to disagree with your general idea, but you really should
>get the details right when you post something like this:
>
> ... [excised]

thanks for fixing my mistakes, I am more of an occasional user of unix than
a continuous user.

>>Example 3:
>>    ... I want to do the same scan on the entire disk,
>>    so for the two OS's we get the following:
>>
>>wscan /*/*.c include*.h
>
>(Does /*/ really mean `all directories' and not `the top level'?  If so,
>how do you restrict the number of levels searched?)
>

Yes /*/ means all directories.  /.*/ means all subdirectories of wherever
your current directory is.  If you were going to put some limit on things you
could say /*.*.*/ say to limit the search to three subdirectories deep.
(note as may have become obvious just now we use "." as directory separators,
and "/" as leading and terminating chars).

To restrict searches there are command line switches, (I went into all this
in a post a month or more ago), such as :exclude=<filespec>,
:since=<date-time> :before=<date-time>.  In that posting I was merely
demonstrating that some poster's claim that letting the utilities handle
their own command lines would lead to instant chaos as an axiom.  _ALL_ of
the utilities that come with the OS that take file(s) as arguments take
file-lists as arguments, which include multiple wildcarded filespecs
separated by commas, and using the above mentioned, plus a few other,
switches.  And chaos has not ensued at this company or for our users.

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