From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 17:33:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201008003311.GD3214@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2010081114220.91515@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:18:38AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, George Michaelson wrote:
>
> >Possibly wrongly, I judge glob by things like how simple it is, to use
> >it doing "rename *.foo to *.bar" or "find filenames with spaces in
> >them, and rename to be - separated"
>
> John "Iron bar" Mackin (may he rest in peace) wrote a shell script "mved"
> that implemented PIP-like globs along the lines of "mved =.foo =.bar". I
> still have it somewhere, but it probably needs some work on it now; it was
> really handy for things like "mved =.c =c.old".
I wrote the same thing and strangely enough, I also used = as a * replacement.
From 1987 folks:
http://mcvoy.com/lm/move.shar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-06 9:53 Tyler Adams
2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07 2:25 ` Random832
2020-10-07 2:58 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 9:22 ` arnold
2020-10-07 9:45 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-10-08 3:45 ` John Cowan
2020-10-09 18:21 ` Random832
2020-10-08 0:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08 0:33 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-10-08 2:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-06 23:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 0:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07 0:32 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07 0:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 3:14 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 21:29 ` Greg A. Woods
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