On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > C-shell globs as some programming languages referring to it as, i.e. perl > (which this is a subset of the globs concept) allow for expansion via `*' to > be `anything'. Regexp style globs for what you're looking for would be either > .* (greedy) or .+ (non-greedy), with it being most likely the latter case. >
Ah I understand the difference now. Thanks. > I'll see if I can whip up a quick patch in the next day or so -- but > before I do that, does it make more sense to do globs or regular expressions? > There are pluses and minuses to each version and would require some degree of > parsing (and potentially escaping). I think going for the simpler glob option might be best. In my earlier example a regex would have problems with all the periods, would it not? Also if I want to match anything I would always forget to write .* instead of just * I was just having a quick look at how to implement this, would it be best to use the fnmatch function? Having a quick browse of the FreeBSD source I found csh_match in /usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/match.c:L456 which seems to do something similar to what we want. BTW Feel free to implement this, I was going to have a go but I doubt I'd actually get around to it :( Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
