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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:07:50 -0800
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] iwp9: lightweight nonhierachical navigation
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Thanks for putting up the proceedings.

The extension described in "a light-weight non-hierarchical filesystem navig=
ation extension" paper sounds a bit like zsh's ** extension. In zsh a/**/b m=
atches all existing paths with prefix a and suffix b, where a and b can be a=
rbitrary subpaths. So for example
  wc sys/src/**/*.[ch]
To wc all .c and .h files under sys/src. Zsh added many more extensions to p=
ick files but ** is the most useful one.