On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:14:04AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:01:48PM +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > expensive in cpu terms, and the shell provides great regexp controls > > that you can use ... > Not trying to be picky, but lets be clear, that in shell, these are not > regexes, they are globs. globs and regexes are very different.
Yep, absolutely, I'd just forgotten the right term :-) Hence the attempt to explain the differences at the bottom of the email...
