On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:09:10PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > Just how much documentation of globbing do we want
> > to put in the docs and how much can be "go read X"? Maybe a
> > reference to a Unix tutorial on how globbing works?
>
> Well, if they're on Windows, they don't have "X" for the most part.
There's this new fangled technology called "the web".
> Just a reference doc would be fine:
>
> [a-z]
> *
> ?
> {a,b,c}
> ~
>
> etc. Maybe we can take the BSD manpage (with liberal copyright terms)
> and just insert relevant portions.
There's already this:
META CHARACTERS
\ Quote the next metacharacter
[] Character class
{} Multiple pattern
* Match any string of characters
? Match any single character
~ User name home directory
The metanotation "a{b,c,d}e" is a shorthand for "abe ace ade". Left to
right order is preserved, with results of matches being sorted sepa-
rately at a low level to preserve this order. As a special case "{",
"}", and "{}" are passed undisturbed.
but only {} is explicitly explained. I don't know how much of the rest
need detailed explainations as the terms should already be familiar from
regular expressions. Maybe that needs to be made explicit?
Anyhow, I don't think File::Glob should cut & paste a man page to explain
file globbing in detail. Its out of scope. A reference to a web page will
do a better job.
Know any?
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