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Subject: Re: Source C-code for shell (bash) that processes an asterisk as a  special symbol
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:39:38PM +0300, Alex Vinokur wrote:
>"Igor Peshansky" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote in message news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 63 DOT 0605251358250 DOT 19906 AT access1 DOT cims DOT nyu DOT edu...
>> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Alex Vinokur wrote:
>>
>> > We have mini-shell that doesn't process an asterisk '*' as a special
>> > symbol. Is there any free source C-code on Cygwin that implements that
>> > processing?
>>
>> If I understand your question correctly, there are at least 4 different
>> sources for shells, plus various other programs (e.g., make).  What you're
>> looking for is called "wildcard processing".
>
>Is there any free source C-code on Cygwin that implements "wildcard processing"?

Just the same function that exist on linux:  glob().

cgf

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