From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix glob with empty pattern and patterns ending in slash
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3634kpvdb.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAA6184.2090503@redhat.com> (Ulrich Drepper's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:01:24 -0700")
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> What is the issue with trailing slashes?
It's inconsistent. Globbing with "*/" returns only directories, but
"**/" or "?*/" returns all files with directories marked. Either result
could be the intented one, but IMHO the first one is more useful, and
consistent with globbing in bash and other shells.
Andreas.
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2010-03-22 15:14 Andreas Schwab
2010-03-24 19:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-25 10:07 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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