Micah Cowan wrote: >Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Thought: is it possible to alter the syntax of -A/-R to tell these that >> you are matching a regex rather than a glob? Maybe by requiring the '::'? > >I'm not crazy about that. It would save us the consumption of new >short-options, but... > >I'm not sure I can identify what my objection is; obviously it'd break >any previous scripts that happen to match that pattern, but that has >gotta be pretty frikkin' rare.
Especially since, AFAIK, '::' is not valid anywhere within a URL; the way I read RFC 1630, the only place an unescaped ':' can appear is after the scheme. Tony
