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From: hmc@hwee.UUCP (Hugh Conner)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Wildcard-specs
Message-ID: <191@hwee.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 08:08:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: hwee.191
Posted: Wed Oct  8 08:08:04 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 01:52:16 EDT
References: <4142@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: hmc@hwee.uucp (Hugh Conner)
Organization: Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh
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In article <4142@brl-smoke.ARPA> VERACSD@usc-isi.arpa writes:
>Does UNIX support recursive directory-level matching?  i. e. Does it allow one
>to wildcard-specify all files in a dir as well as all files in the dir's
>subdirectories?  cf. the use of "**" in Symbolics' pathnames.

We've had discussions about this at meetings of our Local user group. It is
one feature which we all agree is lacking. Unfortunately we cannot agree on a
neat, workable, solution. Suggestions include using ** as mentioned above,
making * match subdirectories as well (it does in cpio), among others. I'd
be interested to know if anyone has other solutions, and if anyone has actually
implemented it.
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+     Hugh M. Conner                                  hmc@ee.hw.ac.uk         +
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