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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: File Globbing
- Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 07:25:14 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <4j7kvp$p1d@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> <4j814v$gg7@news.xs4all.nl>
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- Keywords: globbing
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- In article <4j814v$gg7@news.xs4all.nl>, Falstaff <falstaff@xs4all.nl> wrote:
- >mman2@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Mark Mansour) writes:
- >
- >>I am looking for a file globbing routing for a Unix box. Is there
- >>something already written, or do I have to start from scratch? For
- >>those who do not understand what I am talking about, if the user
- >>enters something such as "ls a*b??d" it will check it against an
- >>array/list of alternatives and supply my with the correct answer.
- >
- >Try "echo *" on any UNIX shell and you'll know where to look for it.
-
- How is that? In the binary executable /bin/sh?
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- I suggest he try "man glob". The glob() function is part of the POSIX.2
- standard.
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