On 10/19/06, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/20/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > 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.
Just to clarify:initially, you were talking about changing what **
matches, not *. Now with the new rules, 'fish*' would not match a
directory called "fish.d"?? Currently it does.
If not, this seems as inconevenient as having to write "fish{,**/}*"
to match all files starting with "fish" and files in directories whose
name starts with "fish", no? Wouldn't it be quite surprising to
someone who is used to using ``cp fish* dest''? They would have to
learn to use "--parents". You can hide that, using a script, but you
would have to do that for other commands that use directories too, or
there will be even more surprise. In the end, it's probably best if
"fish*" matches directory names as well as file names.
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