Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/00:47:02
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Nicholas R LeRoy 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.
Added to the "I don't have any idea why someone would want this
but they do" section of the wishlist. ("Open"DOS right?)
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