[Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] 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". > Where is it documented? 'man sh' - the section on "Shell Patterns". -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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