From:	"Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy AT norland DOT com>
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Date:	Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:47:47 -0600
In-Reply-To:	mharris@blackwidow.saultc.on.ca
	"~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2" (Feb 13, 10:08pm)
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Subject:	Re: ~OD: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2
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On Feb 13, 10:08pm, mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:

> Agreed, added to wishlist.  4DOS does this allready.
>
> ie:  copy *ile*.txt \
>
> will copy files.txt, piles.txt, milej.txt, etc
>
> > Also, it should be possible to match entire
> > sets of characters, for example by giving the expression:
> > chapter[1-9].txt
>
> Also added to wishlist.  4DOS also does this allready.  :o)

I'm certainly in agreement, but f we're going this far, why not just do
good ol' regular expressions? It's sometimes useful to be able to specify
regex's like:

ls {a,b,f}[^a]*

Which (unless I'm mistaken) would match all files with a a, b, or f as
the first character and anthing *but* an a as the second character.

Then again, most of you probably know regex's already....

Just my $0.02 worth.

-Nick

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