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From: lance@hermix.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: pattern matching
Summary: shell and not ls
Keywords: pattern matching
Message-ID: <276@hermix.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 23:02:50 GMT
References: <2414@cveg.uucp> <10288@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Mark V Systems, Ltd., Encino, Ca.
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In article <10288@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <2414@cveg.uucp> mhb@hcx.uucp (MARK H BOTNER) writes:
> -Can anybody help me with pattern matching?  I'm trying to match
> -a string against a pattern such as '*' or '*.*' in the same manner that
> -the 'ls' command uses.
> 
> That should be extremely easy, as "ls" does no pattern matching.
> 
This is true. The shell does the expansion of wild card characters.
the program just gets a list.

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Mark V Systems, Ltd.
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