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From: Michel de Ruiter <Michel AT smr DOT nl>
To: "'DJGPP workers'" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: regex question
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:36:52 +0200 
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Hi all,

I have a question about the filename matching on the command line.

An argument of `*/' matches directories *and* normal files.
An argument of `*/' _in Bash_ does *not* match normal files, only
directories.

I think this difference exists, because the DJGPP command line matching
routines do not want to stat every filename to see if it is a directory or
not, because that would mean the minimum executable size would increase too
much. DOS also returns files for *.*\, IIRC.

Maybe we should document this somewhere, though. Where?

Also, is noticed `abC*' expands to `ABC', whereas `aBc*' expands to `abc'.
Why?

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