Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Globbing Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 15:55:27 GMT References: <17097@lanl.gov> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: > The advantage of providing a single (preferably shared) library to > deal with regular expressions/globbing is that all tools that use the > library wind up handling the same regular expressions. I agree, that's a good idea. How do you get the programmers to glob in the places you want in the first place? Even on systems that support globbing libraries, you run into this... and unlike shell globbing you don't get the option of quoting them to make them do what you want. Also: % ls foo* foo.new foo.old % diff foo* -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"