On Sat, 16 May 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <c...@freeshell.org> > wrote: > > > > Am I missing something, or are these extended globbing patterns > > equivalent to a plain asterisk? > > > > ?(pattern-list) Matches zero or one occurrence of the given patterns > > *(pattern-list) Matches zero or more occurrences of the given patterns > > a * will match too much:
Thanks. I knew I was missing something. > [[ bor = b?(a)r ]] # false > [[ bor = b*r ]] # true > > [[ baar = b?(a)r ]] #false > [[ baar = b*r ]] #true > > > [[ bor = b*(a)r ]] # false > [[ bor = b*r ]] # true -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
