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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Globbing
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.013225.23819@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 01:32:25 GMT
References: <15209@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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In-Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)

In article <15209@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0 (Tom Neff) writes:
| I should get off my duff and code this as a Perl function
| 
| 	@foo = &REglob("/usr/tmp/id[0-9]{2,5}.$XVAL");
| 
| first for demonstration purposes -- unless Randal wants to take up
| the challenge.  :-)

Nope.  I write only one liners, unless it's for my .sig. :-)

I agree though.  I mean, a few more steps, and we can get rid of the
shell entirely!

Does anyone remember UNIX V6 when globbing was done by a separate
process, /etc/glob?  Dennis Ritchie (research!dmr back then) told me
in private mail (OK, so I'm name-dropping :-) that /etc/glob was the
*first* program coded in C for UNIX.

Maybe we can just rip all the useless parts of csh out, and rename it
/usr/lib/perl/glob? :-)

@a=<;echo Just another Perl hacker,>; print join(" ",@a);
(How's *that* for esoteric and undocumented....)
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