On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] > I am using Sylpheed-Claws, and it appears to be wrapping at 78 characters. But the option 'Smart Wrapping' was set and is marked as *EXPERIMENTAL*. So I turned it off and change the wrapping to 72 characters. > Alejandro Pulver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was learning regular expressions, and I noticed that the shell has > > something similar (but it is different from regular expressions). > > > > When I type 'echo *', it replaces '*' for all the files/dirs not starting > > with a '.' (dot). > > > > I understand the '*' in regular expressions must be preceded by other > > thing to match it. > > > > So it is behaving like the DOS wildcards. > > That's funny. More like "DOS wildcards seem to mimic this". > I agree. > > Where is it documented? > > 'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns". > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > Thank you. Best Regards, Ale _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
