On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:25, Rich McAllister wrote:
> Oh, I got too wound up in the history and forgot to say:
>
> I think having pkgchk -P take regexps would be fine, but would prefer
> shell-style wildcards (* and ? instead of .* and .) -- fnmatch(3C) not
> regcomp et.al. It just seems to match the likely uses better.
Now my train of thought has been derailed.
My first use case is:
pkgchk -l -P '/foo$'
("where on earth has the foo command been hidden"). And I guess
I'm thinking of the way I use grep and friends to manipulate the
contents file, so a regexp seemed the obvious extension.
But, yes, I can see that someone coming at ths fresh might
have a different perspective.
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-Peter Tribble
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