[X-Unix] Re: X-Unix Digest, Vol 4, Issue 6

[Eugene]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:42:11PM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
: 
: Am 27.12.2004 um 15:01 schrieb 
: x-unix-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com:
: 
: >It's not there in sh, csh, and even tcsh.
: 
: It was always there because it's *not* regex! It's globbing that can be 
: turned off to create a file named /*.*. Which can be removed by 'rm 
: /*.*', of course.

When I said "it's not there...", I specifically refer to regex
patterns being recognized in filename expansion by those shells'
command lines.  Traditional (i.e. non-regex) filename globbing
rules have always been there.


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Eugene Lee
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