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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Globbing library?
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-14 14:15:16


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"Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge_at_[hidden]> spake the secret code
<53EAD121.12248.215702E4_at_s_sourceforge.nedprod.com> thusly:

>And it would appear you are correct, * and ? are the only two common.
>I am aware of [seq] and [!seq] for fnmatch, I am not aware of {}
>sets.

I always thought in Unix that globbing was done by the shell and not
by the operating system. In particular, I thought {} globbing was a
csh-ism and not an sh-ism. It's hard to tell these days now that bash
has absorbed the useful features of all other shells.

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