Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/14/10:20:45
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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