On 10/20/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > ?: Matches any character except '/' > > *: Matches any substring not including the character '/' > > **: Matches any substring > > > > To me, this seems much more intuitive. > [...] > > So "fish**" would match "fish", "fish.d" and "fish.d/ggg".
Yes. > > Is there a way to, say, copy all files and directories whose names > that start with "fish"? Currently you would write ``cp -r fish*''. Unfortunatly no, not that I know of. 'cp' omits directories and flattens the file list. It would of course be possible to write a simple script to do such things, though. -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
